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- From: sassoj@vccnw10.its.rpi.edu (John J. Sasso Jr.)
- Subject: Bernoulli Drives VS Floptical Drives (?)
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- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:51:54 GMT
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- Hello,
-
- On my i486 PC I have a 104M harddrive (SCSI), which has only 15M left on
- it. Although I could buy another 100+M harddrive to get more storage, I
- was thinking of turning to removable storage (high capacity disks). I was
- looking at floptical drives and Bernoulli drives. From what I understand,
- (1) Bernoulli drives run about $500, and flopticals about $300, (2) the
- disks that come w/Bernoulli drives are usually 90M, whereas the disks for
- flopticals are 21M. However, how do these two drives compare as far as
- access time is concerned (as well as w/ harddrives)? In the future, I plan
- on having over 200M worth of programs and data files that I'll have to
- store. So, should I get a floptical or Bernoulli drive? I figure if I
- buy either one, all I will have to spend money on is the disks, and not
- have to spend hundreds of $$$ on another harddrive.
-
- -- John
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