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- From: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson)
- Subject: Re: floptical advice please!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.170153.20750@newshost.lanl.gov>
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- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
- References: <1993Jan23.030839.11824@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:01:53 GMT
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- In article 11824@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu, dcable@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dan Cable) writes:
- >u0h36@keele.ac.uk (Adam Turnbull) writes:
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- >>stuff deleted
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- >>The fact that they are slower than floppies is all that is putting me
- >>off - I don't have an existing hard drive, and I don't think a floptical
- >>rest deleted<
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- >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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- Dan, that sounds like a great benchmark comparison. I'm sure several
- netters would be interested in noting your results.
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