[1581] in linux-scsi channel archive
What do you guys recommend?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Soeren Juelsgaard)
Fri Mar 21 02:43:58 1997
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 08:31:52 +0100 (MET)
From: Soeren Juelsgaard <juels@kom.auc.dk>
To: Robert Johannes <rjohanne@piper.hamline.edu>
Cc: linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.95.970320113852.28185A-100000@kovalevskaya>
>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Johannes <rjohanne@piper.hamline.edu> writes:
Robert> Hello, I talked to someone and they said in the long run,
Robert> getting a high capacity removable drive such as the iomega jaz
Robert> or syquest's newest syjet is not worth it; that for the same
Robert> price ($399-499) of getting the removable drive, plus the
Robert> cartridges, I could get a fixed scsi disk in the capacity around
Robert> 4 gigs; what do you guys think? The primary reason I'm thinking
Robert> of the removable drives is because I use my system for recording
Robert> and producing music; thus I directly write the songs to the hard
Robert> disk, and a lot of the time one song will cover up to 90 megs.
Robert> So I run out of space very quickly; I'm thinking that with the
Robert> iomega jaz or syquest's syjet I could buy as many cartridges as
Robert> I need without having to comtemplate a hard drive upgrade. What
Robert> do you guys recommend? Your help will be appreciated very much.
Robert> robert
Either get a real solution like pinnacle's 4.6 GB opticals ($$$$!) or
get a scsi-II disk for 500us$. I think that for music recording you'll
apreciate a fixed disk both for acces time and bandwith.
Regards Soeren Juelsgaard
