ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG) (01/31/91)
From article <1991Jan31.021525.871@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, by dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell): > > of Mead Data Central and found an article about high capacity floppies. > holds about 22 megs per disk > 65 ms access time > uses 3.5" disks that are specially formatted with an opticly read pattern > on some sort of barrium oxide media. > reads and writes magneticly > uses a scsi interface > downward compatible with 720k & 1.44m. > > the cost: $795.00 > and about $10 per preformatted disk. I read something like this in InfoWorld last year. The drive would be about $800 but the per disk would be $25 instead of $10. At the time I was thinking about getting the SyQuest 555 system as my removeable (constantly-in-use) hard drive. After much thought, I made my bet that a hight-density FLOPPY is not mend to be spinning 8 hours a day, 365 days a year. I reasoned that it would "wear out" its surface or something without a cooling fan inside (my assumption), and in fact the maker does not mend it to replace hard drive. I've gotten the SyQuest since, used it like a regular hard drive 50 hours a week and has no problem at all. Could anyone tell me I am wrong and that the high-density floppy CAN be used like a regular hard drive?