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From: sarge@metapsy.UUCP (Sarge Gerbode)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: How many writes on a WMRM disc?
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Date: 24 Oct 88 05:42:15 GMT
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Reply-To: sarge@metapsy.UUCP (Sarge Gerbode)
Organization: Metapsychology, Woodside, CA
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I'm curious about how many writes one could expect to get on the
optico-magnetic NeXt disc?  In the absence of any knowledge, it would
seem to me that there should be a limit to the number of times you
could heat material to the Curie point and have it remain in tip-top
condition.  I don't see that 30% backup space would make too much
difference if there were a sufficiently low limit on the number of
permissible writes, since on a well-used disk (especially if it is
used for swapping) more than 30% of it could easily be written to *a
lot*.

I haven't seen any data on this.  Surely they would have done tests to
see how often one could write to such a disc, wouldn't they?
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Sarge Gerbode -- UUCP:  pyramid!thirdi!metapsy!sarge
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