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- From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
- Subject: Re: MD drives
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:23:42 GMT
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- maurices@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Maurice Shihadi) writes:
- > 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...). [etc]
- >
- > 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).
-
- I can't help but wonder if you are refering to the earlier 128meg MO drive
- from Pinnacle. The new one (which has just started shipping in the last few
- weeks, I believe) is faster than the MOST mechanisms. I don't have the
- specs here right now, but maybe someone who does could list them. It seemed
- to me that the Pinnacle had better performance no matter how you wanted to
- measure it.
-
- I just wish I could get that performance on a drive that supports 256meg (or
- larger) capacity! :-) (on a 3.5" cartridge, that is)
-
- --
- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
- ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
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