gregs@meaddata.com (Greg Smith) (11/30/90)
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
tom@bears.ucsb.edu (Tom Weinstein) (11/30/90)
In article <2061@meaddata.meaddata.com>, gregs@meaddata.com (Greg Smith) writes: > 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. There are a number of vendors with 128MB 3.5 inch magneto-optical drives. The specs I've seen for these all advertise 28 msec average seek times. I believe Pinnacle was one of these. -- He is Bob...eager for fun. | Tom Weinstein tom@bears.ucsb.edu He wears a smile... Everybody run! | tweinst@polyslo.calpoly.edu
ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG) (11/30/90)
From article <2061@meaddata.meaddata.com>, by gregs@meaddata.com (Greg Smith): > 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 Actually, Syquest cost about $500 for the base unit, $80 for each 44Mb cartridge, 25ms access time. Price from Hard Drive International (see Computer Shoppers magazine). I have been using it as a REGULAR hard drive for the past few months and has no problem. Can't wait to get more cartridges...
ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG) (11/30/90)
From article <7516@hub.ucsb.edu>, by tom@bears.ucsb.edu (Tom Weinstein): > There are a number of vendors with 128MB 3.5 inch magneto-optical > drives. The specs I've seen for these all advertise 28 msec average > seek times. I believe Pinnacle was one of these. Does anybody know if magneto-optical drives are meant to be used like a regular hard drive -- spinning all the time reading writing, writing reading, hours, days, weeks, months, years... I read articles about 20Mb FLOPPY drives. The only problem I see is that the disk surface might not be able to take the daily use like a hard drive. Any comments? E. Teng Ong (ong@d.cs.okstate.edu) Computer Science Dept. Oklahoma State University (Opinions are mine and mine alone)