Re: GS Question #5: Hard Drives

[sknkwrks@mayall.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter)]

(BTW, it'd help a lot if you left in some attribution to the original
message.)

In article <fmlinCG3yM4.6n5@netcom.com> fmlin@netcom.com (Fist of Fury) writes:
>??? wrote:
>>What about removable media?  Pros and cons of cartridge vs.
>>floptical?
>
>Floptical is 20mb, speed is mediocre...  Pretty good as backup media
>(it's also a 1.4mb drive).  Cartriedge?!  You mean tape or MO's?

By "cartridge," he probably meant SyQuest or Bernoulli...both of 'em
are reasonably fast.  I know someone who used a SyQuest for primary
storage on a Mac for a while when the hard drive crapped out.

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