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From: jkrueger@daitc.daitc.mil (Jonathan Krueger)
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Subject: Re: The NeXT Problem
Message-ID: <199@daitc.daitc.mil>
Date: 17 Oct 88 01:23:47 GMT
References: <26435@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <452@oracle.UUCP>
Reply-To: jkrueger@daitc.daitc.mil.UUCP (Jonathan Krueger)
Organization: Defense Applied Information Technology Center, Alexandria VA
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In article <452@oracle.UUCP> csimmons@oracle.UUCP (Charles Simmons) writes:
>Something to factor into your price performance picture:  I believe another
>article pointed out that the optical drive was under $1500 dollars.  So,
>for $1550, I get 256MB of disk storage.  For $1600 I get 512MB of disk
>storage.  For $1700 I get 1 Gigabyte of disk storage.  Admittedly, my
>seek time gets a little bit long (2 to 3 seconds) when I have to swap disks...

Jukebox.  I hear a voice saying, "the NeXT jukebox...for when you need
the NeXT disk".  I also hear a voice saying "backup" and also "our 400
disk box stores 100 gigabytes."  Opens up whole new horizons in
optimizing allocation of disk resources.  Such things exist today, but
tend to be expensive and highly vendor-specific, and don't offer
rewrite/erase capabilities as far as I know.

-- Jon