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- From: maurices@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Maurice Shihadi)
- Subject: Re: MD drives
- Message-ID: <Bz65Jz.AJ@spock.dis.cccd.edu>
- Organization: Coast Community College District, Costa Mesa, CA
- References: <1992Dec9.144756.1042@proforma.com> <2jg2!0b@rpi.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 23:07:11 GMT
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- In article <2jg2!0b@rpi.edu> gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) writes:
- >
- >The Pinnacle-based 128meg MO drives have access times down in the 19ms
- >range, which makes them quite nice. (I intend to order one next week...).
- >If the 512meg ones become real, and come in with performance like that,
- >they'll be *really* nice devices to have.
- >
- I'm not possitive about my specs as they are not handy but the way I
- understand it the MOST 256meg 3.5' mechanism is the fastest when comparing
- seek time and data transfer rate. The Pinnacle-based drive uses DRAM
- to buffer data enough to give a better access time but I don't think that
- the over all data transfer rate is any better than other 128 meg opticals
- with the exception of DGR's turbo 128 (uses a MOST 128 mechanism).
- On the other hand the new MOST mechanism at least doubles the seek time of all
- the other 128's. This I'm fairly sure about. Maybe someone more
- technically minded could speak up to clear the confusion since I probably
- can't explain this any more adaquately at this time.
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- Also, 512 meg is the next logical progression so it is safe to assume it
- is being worked on although from what I've heard it is a few years down
- the road. If you think about it for a moment MOST was the first to produce
- the 128 and now they are the first to produce the 256--see a pattern?
- Just kidding but you never know.
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- maurices
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