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From: izumi@violet.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Maxtor Tahiti Performance?
Keywords: 1.2 GB optical, read/write speed
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Date: 14 Jun 90 11:05:29 GMT
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>mccalpin@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (John D Mccalpin) writes:
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>| that regard.  For example, my NeXT optical only managed about 25 kB/s
>| on writes (though the reads were very fast).

This should be more like 100 kbytes/sec for writes.
For example, copying a 2.67 MB file (Webster Dictionary index file)
to optical takes 25-28 secs consistently either from
Browser, or via standard unix cp command.

Izumi Ohzawa, izumi@violet.berkeley.edu