CompuServe Messages

Of course! 600 Megabytes of read and writeable (NOT Write once Worm stuff) just like your trusty? Hard disk. Except it doesnt crash. It stores 31 sectors per track instead of 17 so you get more data on a swipe. It is not S l o w. as I have seen the CD roms reviewed. It boots (if you want it too) it can replace your Hard disk. I did replace my old Tandon as it was getting noisy. And at a measly 40 Megabytes <grin> who needs it? DiskPerf gave me some numbers on my stock 2000 that are pretty similar to my Tandon ST-506. A tad faster on bigger blocks and a tad slower on smaller blocks. I think thats to do with the larger number of sectors per track. It does take longer to write than to read. Percentage wise thats pretty much OK since Writing Overall is a small part of the total time. So I think that for the most part it should be considered a very large removeable hard disk that doesnt have head crashes or is trouble around magnetic fields. You can alter it with a magnet alone but…. I think it would have to be a TON? To do so without proper heating with the Laser. I have had a lot of fun with mine since now I can store all of those 6 minute sound samples and gobs of video on my A-Squared digitizer. The freedom to just throw EVERYTHING on disk is really nice. Oh price wise you will have to talk with the chiefs at Impulse and XYXIS but it isint anywere near what the other companies are bilking for the Apple&iBM products. Yeah!!! And the folks who should really be doing all the talking are those folks. I just wanted to thank everyone for kind support during late night programming sessions. I was starting to Veg out a few times <grin>.