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From: Duel@cup.portal.com (Omid M Farr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: WORMs
Message-ID: <33432@cup.portal.com>
Date: 1 Sep 90 05:34:42 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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I'm looking for personal/magazines reviews (and opinions) on WORMs. I was
in the market for a large capacity hard drive (~360-400megs), but it seems
the price of a 80 meg hard drive and a WORM (~$650. I havent had a chance to
really look at WORM prices) is about the same as a 400 meg hard drive. I
definitely need the hard drive for erasing files, but the WORM would seem to
be very useful for storing files. 
I have a WD-7000 SCSI controller if that makes a difference in my available
choices. How fast do WORMs rated against hard drives? I hear they have around
a 250ms access time, but compared to a hard drive's 16-20 ms, does it really
mean anything else? I don't think I mind too much to wait an extra 1/4th of
a second for it to find the file, but will it be loading the file at the same
Mb/sec rate?
Thanks. Email preferred and I'll post a summary if there is interest.
Duel@cup.portal.com