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From: ech@poseidon.ATT.COM (Edward C Horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Number of writes on an optifloppy
Message-ID: <568@poseidon.ATT.COM>
Date: 9 Nov 88 20:08:00 GMT
References: <8646@spl1.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Lincroft, NJ
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From article <8646@spl1.UUCP>, by sarge@metapsy.UUCP (Sarge Gerbode):
> What I'm curious about is -- is there any limit to the number of
> writes one could reasonably expect to be able to perform on an
> optifloppy?  I would think there would be something analogous to
> "metal fatigue" involved in repeatedly heating material to its Curie
> point...

I posed your question to one of the Sony marketing types at Unix Expo in
NYC last week: he said he'd been asked before, and one of the engineers
thought about it a bit, filled up a couple of envelope-backs, and
estimated the number of writes before breakdown at 1 to 10 million.

Probably enough, if the estimate is correct.

=Ned=