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From: dold@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: advice sought on 3.5" 1.44M floppy drive
Message-ID: <1312@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Date: 5 Dec 89 16:34:55 GMT
References: <56@qmsseq.imagen.com>
Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA
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in article <56@qmsseq.imagen.com>, pipkins@qmsseq.imagen.com (Jeff Pipkins) says:

> The Teac drive came w/my Gateway; works great.  $89 sounds like a good

I had both a 5.25/1.2 and 3.5/1.44 disk in an Everex 386/20.
Testing that I did under XENIX/386, MSDOS, and IBM-AT Diagnostics indicated
that in every case the 5.25 was at least marginally faster, and in some cases
significantly faster than the 3.5.
Is this always true?
I have no idea of the internal vendors involved.
I would like to go to 3.5" disks as a replacement for my SyQuest 5MB drive,
which has served me well, but I'm worried about it becoming senile in its
old age.

Can someone recommend a 3.5" drive that is faster the others, or are there
any differences?

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