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From: hah@mipon3.intel.com (Hans Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 10 MB floppies
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Date: Sun, 11-Oct-87 03:53:35 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 11 03:53:35 1987
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In article <449@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> hakanson@mist.UUCP (Marion Hakanson) writes:
>
>I asked them "why" too (esp. regarding the wear), and was told that
>they were intended mostly as an inexpensive backup device (compared to
>cartridge tapes, or 50 normal floppies, etc.).  Supposedly, the access
>time is pretty fast, even on a par with some old slow 10M hard drives.
                                              ^^^ ^^^^

Actually they are right up there with the latest hard disks at about 35ms
access.  These babies are not just for HD backup!

Hans