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From: ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 20 meg. floppy drive
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.153239.28827@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 31 Jan 91 15:32:39 GMT
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From article <1991Jan31.021525.871@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, by dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell):
> 
> of Mead Data Central and found an article about high capacity floppies.
> holds about 22 megs per disk
> 65 ms access time
> uses 3.5" disks that are specially formatted with an opticly read pattern
>    on some sort of barrium oxide media.
> reads and writes magneticly
> uses a scsi interface
> downward compatible with 720k & 1.44m.
> 
> the cost: $795.00
> and about $10 per preformatted disk.

I read something like this in InfoWorld last year.  The drive would be 
about $800 but the per disk would be $25 instead of $10.

At the time I was thinking about getting the SyQuest 555 system as my
removeable (constantly-in-use) hard drive.  After much thought, I made 
my bet that a hight-density FLOPPY is not mend to be spinning 8 hours 
a day, 365 days a year.  I reasoned that it would "wear out" its surface
or something without a cooling fan inside (my assumption), and in fact
the maker does not mend it to replace hard drive.  I've gotten
the SyQuest since, used it like a regular hard drive 50 hours a week and
has no problem at all.

Could anyone tell me I am wrong and that the high-density floppy CAN be
used like a regular hard drive?