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Subject: Re: How hard and fast are fast hard disk - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 26-Mar-84 23:03:46 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 26 23:03:46 1984
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fortune!burton    Mar 26 18:09:00 1984


I can't speak too much about your first point, except that you'd probably
want drives with plated media.  (shiny appearance, instead of the
standard media "brown and round" look.)

you shouldn't care about the transfer rate, but only if you can get a
controller that can handle the rate.  The drive's transfer rate isn't
determined by what's good for the system, but what's good for the drive.
Actually, floppies, at .25 to .5 Mb/sec are compatible with typical small
system bus transfer rates.

  Philip Burton      101 Twin Dolphin Drive
  Fortune Systems    Redwood City, CA  94065	   (415) 595-8444 x 526
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