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From: stuart@bms-at.UUCP (Stuart D. Gathman)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Why optical disks are slow to seek etc...
Message-ID: <266@bms-at.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Nov-86 23:25:32 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 10 23:25:32 1986
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Summary: a problem of scale
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In article <586@unccvax.UUCP>, jow@unccvax.UUCP (Jim Wiley) writes:
> winchester.  The killer on the data rate is the 1.33M bits per
						  ^^^^^^^^^^
> second SCSI interface.  I admit the seek time is poor, but SCSI
> seems to me to be a pretty brain damaged way to sacrifice performance

I beg your pardon?

Perhaps you meant 1.33M *bytes* per second.  SCSI is 2 to 4 times faster
than ST506.  ST506 is limited by definition to 5M bits per second.  SCSI
goes 10M to 20M bits per second.  The 20M bps is as good as a high
performance mini.
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Stuart D. Gathman	<..!seismo!{vrdxhq|dgis}!BMS-AT!stuart>