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From: hue@netcom.UUCP (Jonathan Hue)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: R/W CD's
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Date: 15 Mar 90 07:44:03 GMT
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In article <12380@venera.isi.edu> schur@venera.isi.edu (Sean Schur) writes:
>Yes. They are called Optical Erasable Drives. There are three that I know
>of available, from 540MB to 1 Gibabyte PER CARTRIDGE. In other words, you

To avoid confusion, you should refer to these as magneto-optical drives.
They are not optical drives, and do not use the same technology as
the audio CD or CD-ROM.

>will answer any questions you would have about these drives. The only 
>drawback I have heard of, and this is hearsay, is that they are considerably
>slower than a hard drive.

It takes three passes to write data on a magneto-optical drive.  Their access
time is usually quite a bit longer than that of a good hard drive, too.

-Jonathan