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From: barry@joshua.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman)
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Subject: Re: NeXT vs Sun3
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Date: 21 Oct 89 08:20:04 GMT
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>Can anyone comment on the speed increase with the SCSI?
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I don't have hard data, but from my experience, I'd say the SCSI
is  2--3 times faster, and an order of magnitude quiter. But, 
the floptical was okay on speed and noise. 
(But it is noisy--when
its reading or writeing it sounds like an old daisy wheel printer,
or like a modern cash register printing up a receipt.)

-Barry Merriman