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From: ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Do you *hate* Mac CD-ROM technology?
Message-ID: <30337@cup.portal.com>
Date: 30 May 90 19:52:44 GMT
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Maurice Sharp writes:
<      Well, that is your fault for using a slow CDROM drive.  I have
< copied 60mb in significantly less time.  Like move the folder over and
< wait a few moments (possibly even a couple of minutes) then it is
< done.

Where do we get such a CD-ROM drive?  I just copied a 50 meg folder from
my Quantum 170 to my Quantum 80, both of which are a lot faster than any
CD-ROM drive I have ever heard of, and it took about 14 minutes.

You have a CD-ROM drive that goes faster than this?

On the other hand, my 50 meg was split up among ~3000 files.  Since the Mac
usually copies about 5 files/second, we expect it to take at least 10 minutes
to copy 3000 files, even if they are small.  Was your 60 meg spread across
only a few large files, or were there many small files?

						Tim Smith