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Re: What do you guys recommend?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Wreski)
Fri Mar 21 10:46:42 1997
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 10:41:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Dave Wreski <tel1dvw@is.ups.com>
To: Soeren Juelsgaard <juels@kom.auc.dk>
Cc: Robert Johannes <rjohanne@piper.hamline.edu>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199703210731.IAA15074@zastava.kom.auc.dk>
On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Soeren Juelsgaard wrote:
> 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.
I don't think so Tim. My Jaz has access of like 12ms, which is pretty
damn good (albeit slow data rates and revolutions per minute).
In addition, he's talking about 90Meg files. There is nothing to
consider. Get the Jaz. You can get like 500Meg for like $500, even
cheaper if you look around. I got three at $80/piece.
If you don't like that idea, check out the rewriteable CDROMs. You can
write the data to a small disk (ie, less than a gig) and then post them to
the CDROM for like $6.00/600meg.
If I'm talking about large amounts of data, the last thing I would buy
would be a hard disk. If I did get a disk, it would be two 2.1 gig, as I
would hate to have a 4 gig scsi disk go bad, and loose all 4 gig at once.
Summary: Spend your money on a 1-2 gig fast drive (scsi if you have the
money and support) and the rest of your money on a rewritable cdrom or jaz
disk.
> Regards Soeren Juelsgaard
Regards Dave Wreski
