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- From: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders)
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- Organization: One of these days for sure
- X-News: HERMES MMAIL 1.10 Rev. Dec 15 1992
- Subject: Re: floptical advice please!
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 00:33:32 -0800
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- In <1993Jan23.030839.11824@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> dcable@nyx.cs.du.edu
- (Dan Cable) writes:
-
- <on flopticals>
-
- >They are decidedly not slower than floppies. ICD's Ratehd reports 120ms
- >seek time and 99kbs data transfer. No way are the hard drive manufacturers
- >quaking in their boots about this performance, but its not all that bad.
- >If it will give you a better feeling for the speed, I could copy some
- >files, run a database sort, etc. and compare the times to a Syquest.
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- I just ran ratehd on my Syquest. It does 34ms seek time and 497kps
- transfer. My quantum does 24ms, and 1197kps. I think the floptical would
- be a good backup device, but it's so close in price to a hard dirve i
- doesn't seem that cost effective.
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- --
- John Henders
- Vancouver,BC
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