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- From: adamd@rhi.hi.is (Adam David)
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- Subject: Re: Removable mass storage (Syquest,Flopticals...)
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- Date: 10 Nov 92 20:49:57 GMT
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- ee91mds2@brunel.ac.uk (Mark D Smith) writes:
-
- >I am looking to buy a removable mass storage system to replace my ever
- >growing collection of floppies and to backup my two 40MByte hard disks. I
- >have been looking at various options, including flopticals and syquest
- >drives and, at the moment, a 44MByte syquest drive looks to be the best
- >solution.
-
- The nice thing about flopticals is that they handle all the useful 3.5"
- magnetic floppies too. The only thing that gets in the way of replacing the
- standard floppy drive with a floptical is that some software is locked
- by accessing the floppy drive directly. Of course, an internal SCSI
- interface is also necessary. I am wondering if a module that redefines
- SWI ADFS_DiscOP would be enough to solve the software lock problem.
- Floptical drive mechanisms are available for $275 and the 21MB disks cost
- reasonable so it looks like a viable option.
-
- For more $$$ rewritable optical drives look interesting. Once the drive is
- paid for, the media costs $25 per 128 MB (3.5") or somewhat more but cheaper
- per MB for 650 MB media. The data on optical disks decays slower than on
- magnetic disks, so is good for relatively long-term storage.
-
- When the market catches up with the technology (I mean when we can look back
- on the technology that is available today), the best data storage is 3D
- optical RAM. After all, we are still in the dark ages.
-
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- Adam David. (adamdâ–“@rhi.hi.is)
-