gregs@meaddata.com (Greg Smith) (12/01/90)
Does anyone have direct experience with a removable cartridge winchester type drive. I know SyQuest and SysGen make drives with specs such as: 44 MB capacity 20 something ms access time Street price for the drive is around $800 and I think cartridges are like $90 I'm looking for some sort of unlimited storage with hard disk performance. I don't want to get another bigger fixed disk. It would be nice to be able to back up my 68 MB disk to this new system. I have considered a WORM drive or read/write CD/Eletro-Optical type drive but I have no specs or costs for these type systems. I hope to use my hard disk for data storage and place application code on some sort of expandable media. Anybody heard more about this "Optical Paper" stuff that Iomega is working on. I used a bernoulli (sp?) drive once and it was nice ... but a little too slow for the main drive on a 386 system. Please send me any recommendations/spec and I'll post a summary Thanks, Greg