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- From: wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith)
- Subject: Re: MD: Sony's new Mini Disk technology
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 00:26:40 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan11.220701.718@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
- >The next question is that of capacity. If the MD player is at CD
- >quality, it will record at about 44,000 16-bit samples per second. I
- >believe the time-limit of a MD is 74 minutes. This yields 44,000 x 74
- >x 60 = 195360000 or 186MW or 372MB. This is unformatted, of course.
-
- I *believe* that there is somewhere between 25% and 40% data redundancy
- on audio CD's (to provide for error correction). Also, you forgot that
- there are 2 audio samples @ 44.1 khz, but I don't know if they are stored
- at the full 16 bits or 14 bits per channel. So there is more like 600 to
- 650 mb (at least) of possible data storage on a conventional audio CD,
- which is also the figure quoted in CD-ROM advertisments.
-
- >Now, comes the issue of speed. Since the unit is meant to record live
- >audio, it must be able to record at least 44,000 16-bit samples per
- >second. This comes up to 88,000 bytes per second, or 85K per second.
- >A slow transfer rate, when compared to hard drives, but fast when
- >compared to floppies. As for seek time, who knows. That much can't
- >be derived from it's performance as an audio player.
-
- The CD-rom drives that have been on the market since day one had a transfer
- rate of 150k/sec, which is what you would expect out of an audio CD-player
- (remember to double your figure above). There have been new drives available
- for some months now that are "double speed", ie they can transfer at 300 k/sec.
- The specs (From IBM's Technical reference manual for their original PC) says
- that the original 360k low density full-height 5.25" drives had a transfer rate
- of 250k BITS per second (32000 bytes/sec). A high-density drive is probably
- doing 40-50k/sec. The typical 20 MB hard drive in a 10 mhz PC-XT can easily do
- 150k/sec, and a typical 40 MB drive in a 10 or 12 mhz PC-AT can easily do
- 300 k/sec, if not 350 or 400 k/sec.
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