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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Bernoulli drive?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.180303.3549@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <EDWONG.92Nov5084043@acs.nntp-read.bu.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:03:03 GMT
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- In <EDWONG.92Nov5084043@acs.nntp-read.bu.edu> edwong@acs.nntp-read.bu.edu (Edward Wong) writes:
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- >Hi all,
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- > I want to know the performance and the reliability of a Bernoulli
- >drive? (i.e. the access time) Does any of you own one? I am thinking of
- >buying a Bernoulli 90PRO. There is one concern, if I eventually buy one,
- >then shall I treat it as a backup disk, or a hard disk?
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- Treat it as a hard drive. I don't have the 90; mine is a 44 and it
- has been quite reliable. The media comes with a 5 year guarantee, and
- I think the access times are typically in the range of 22 ms.
-
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- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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