#Hi Cap Disk Storage
22-Oct-93 01:22:06
Sb: #62785-#Hi Cap Disk Storage
Fm: Gus Grubba 70673,1605
To: Andrew McClary 71234,35
The RICOH's speed is comparable with that of a fast CDROM. Around
400k/sec transfers (as opposed to SCSI-II's almost 5M/s). With these
big hard drives poping up (9G and above) for the same price as these
optical devices, I see no point there.
Hewlett Packard's only disadvantage is not being the so called ABEKAS
standard. As I wouldn't ever need D1, I couldn't care less about
that. The $1,500 difference paid a good dinner (in Milan)… If you
ever consider going the D1 route, the Exabyte is an appealing option
though.