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- From: billbill@wetware.com (Bill Bill)
- Subject: Re: Looking for good read/write optical drive
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.081606.25789@wetware.com>
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- Organization: Castle Wetware
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 08:16:06 GMT
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- jangus@alnitak.usc.edu (Jim Angus) writes ...
- >It seems that optical drives provide the lowest cost per megabyte for removable
- >media.
-
- Depends on how much storage you plan to use and what happens
- to media (and drive) prices. At prices I found a couple months
- ago, I think I figured the Syquests cost less until about
- 500-600 MB, then the 128 MB opticals cost the least.
- In the gigabytes range, the 650 MB opticals are cheaper per megabyte.
-
- ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
- > I've been using an APS M-O drive for about a month now and have
-
- That's the one I got. Same story here.
-
- > nice. The drive was $1200, but at MacWorld I someone selling M-O
- > drives for $999 (although I don't know if that was for one of the
- > older, slower drives, or even if that price included a case/power
- > supply).
-
- It looked to me like that was an old Sony drive, and slow.
-
- > The only problems I have with the APS unit is that 1) it's noisy, and
-
- What a relief that somebody else says this. I thought my IIci fan
- was noisy until I got the MO drive. I'll have to build a foam
- enclosure for the drive - my computer should be *quiet*! Has anybody
- else out there solved this noise?
-
- > 2) was you mount a cartridge, the unit stays on until you reboot.
- > APS's driver checks the drive for an insert every couple seconds or so,
- > and if the drive is off your Mac stops briefly every couple seconds.
-
- Yeah. The driver in FWB's Hard Disk Toolkit is supposed to avoid
- this problem. I haven't formatted an optical disk with FWB yet,
- so I can't say. Write me if you're interested in the results;
- I'll do it next week.
-
- Bill
-