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- From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Need info on tape drives
- Message-ID: <72011@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 23:54:17 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1992Dec19.002019.12176@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec19.002019.12176@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- dcantrel@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Daniel T Cantrell) writes:
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- | [...]
- | I am looking specifically at the Archive 2150S Viper QIC 150MB external
- | that supposedly has a peak read rate of 1.2 MB/sec.
- | [...]
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- Nope, the 2150S is spec'd at 5Mbyte/minute (for 150MB in approx. 30 minutes).
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- DAT 4mm drives are "generally" spec'd at 10Mbyte/minute, and Exabyte EXB-8200
- 8mm drives are spec'd at 15Mbyte/minute.
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- The data transfer rate from the drive's buffers may, in fact, be even as high
- as 5Mbyte/second, but the buffer is exhausted nearly instantaneously! :-)
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- Thad Floryan [ thad@btr.com, thad@cup.portal.com ]
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