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- From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: floptical advice please!
- Message-ID: <11804@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 00:09:00 GMT
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- Sender: news@cs.uq.oz.au
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- hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson) writes:
-
- >One word of caution however... flopticals are nifty but they are s-l-o-w
- >compared to the speed and convenience of a typical hard disk. I think they
- >would be great for backups but not ideal for your primary storage device.
- >This is IMHO and others here may voice different opinions, of course.
-
- I'd like to hear those opinions.
-
- I have been looking a tape back-up units, and my feeling is "old technology".
-
- The *ONLY* use for a tape-backup unit is using tapes to backup file.
-
- But a floptical could be used for less-often run programs, or other
- files that, while they don't really need to live on my hard-disk,
- I wouldn't want them OFF it and stuffed away on a tape somewhere.
-
- My current set-up is an ICD host adaptor, a SCSI drive, and power
- supply (I opted against the "wire running from the ST's power-supply
- set-up for just this reason: adding more devices) - what do I
- need to add - just a floptical drive???
-
- Any help would be ENORMOUSLY appreciated.
-
- Oh, also - whatever I do, it will need to be portable to the Falcon -
- I know the ICD adaptor will be pretty obsolete for the Falcon, since
- it has SCSI-II built in, but I'd like to avoid buying anything else
- that won't transport across.
-
- --
- TIA,
- Warwick
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