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From: mccalpin@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (John D Mccalpin)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Maxtor Tahiti Performance?
Keywords: 1.2 GB optical, read/write speed
Message-ID: <6592@vax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Date: 13 Jun 90 16:52:14 GMT
Organization: College of Marine Studies, Univ. of Delaware
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I am looking to expand my mass storage on my Silicon Graphics Personal
Iris, and I noticed that at least one vendor is finally shipping the
Maxtor Tahiti 1.2 GB read/write optical system.

The dealer-supplied specs include: 1.2 GB capacity (600 MB/side) and
an access time of 35 ms.

I am really far more concerned about write speeds.  I have skipped on 
most other read/write opticals because of the abysmal performance in
that regard.  For example, my NeXT optical only managed about 25 kB/s
on writes (though the reads were very fast).  Since I intend to use it
both for backups and for data storage, I don't want the thing tied
up for several hours/day just for the backups!

So does anyone have real data on the read and write performance of
this unit? 
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John D. McCalpin                               mccalpin@vax1.udel.edu
Assistant Professor                            mccalpin@delocn.udel.edu
College of Marine Studies, U. Del.             mccalpin@scri1.scri.fsu.edu