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- From: ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)
- Subject: Re: 21M Flopticals?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.174506.6717@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom. San Jose, California
- References: <1993Jan23.235135.18521@trentu.ca> <93023.214617U59985@uicvm.uic.edu> <ferch.727904592@swiss.ucs.ubc.ca>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:45:06 GMT
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- ferch@ucs.ubc.ca (Les Ferch) writes ...
- >>I think each 21meg disk costs over $10 right now. And you have to buy
- >>them in boxes of ten.
- >
- >I'm sure all floptical owners are hoping for lower disk prices (I would if
- >I had one) but $10 for 21M is less than $0.50 per megabyte. That's pretty
- >good compared to other media (e.g. 88MB Syquest cartridges are around a
- >$1.00 per megabyte).
-
- And 150MB cartridges are around $1.20 per megabyte.
-
- For fast, cheap, storage, I still haven't seen anything better than
- the magneto-optical drives. Disks are as cheap as $0.28 per megabyte
- and the drives are as about 80% of the speed of a Quantum 210 hard
- drive.
-
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