CompuServe Messages

"I'm wanting to by a removible hard disk system using cartridges. It would appear that SyQuest and Bernouilli are the best. If anyone has any experience with either of these system I would appreciate your feedback." I had the same questions a while ago and the solution was a HP 1533A 4mm DAT drive… The tapes hold 4-16 gigs (at optimal compression) and cost you about $9 each. The drive is in a nice, small external case and can be taken to other machines just by plugging it into the SCSI bus (measures 7×2.5×10") and cost you ca. $950. "What are the disk seek and transfer rates for the different systems? I was thinking of getting a model that supports at least 250Mb catridges or more. What are their advantages and disadvantages?" Seek time is max 35 secs (if the file is at end of tape) on average 5 secs, but once you found a file, (asuming that your files are sequential TGA's or FLC's,), seek (access) is instantenous. The drive has a transfer rate of 88 megabytes a minute from there on. I use Tapedisk from Tapedisk Corp. which lets me use the tape just as if it was another hard disk on my system. All you do is plop in a tape and from there on you have a minimum of another 4GIG harddisk at your disposal, all DOS commands like copy, xcopy, move etc. work, you can even run Pctools etc. on it. You can render to it (REALLY great if you want to have a bunch of non-repet. animaps at your disposal), render from it (seq. TGA's IFLs etc) and so on. Besides all the 3D-Studio stuff you can have another 4-16 GIG harddisk at all times on your system. The tapes are only $9, the cheapest way you can go and are extremely small and easy to mail. Well, that's it, laters Jack