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From: darryl@ism780c.isc.com (Darryl Richman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: CARTRIDGE HARD DISK storage ...
Keywords: cartridge hard disk storage for Macintosh
Message-ID: <23865@ism780c.isc.com>
Date: 2 Mar 89 22:15:50 GMT
References: <586@jc3b21.UUCP>
Reply-To: darryl@ism780c.UUCP (Darryl Richman)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA
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In article <586@jc3b21.UUCP> david@jc3b21.UUCP (David Quarles) writes:
>If you have used one of the cartridge-type of data storage devices, I
>would appreciate your thoughts on your experiences.  
>
>I am interested (others too ?) in the 40+ Meg cartridge types.  They
>seem to offer the best price/Meg.

I have a DPI 44R removable.  It's very fast, reasonably quiet, and
works well.  About the only problem I've noticed with it is that the
system doesn't recgnize the drive if you boot without a disk in it.
This is, I suppose, pretty obvious, but it means that if you want to
backup your hard drive, you must load a disk and reboot, or keep
one spinning all the time.  Sort of a shame they didn't put a "proto"
driver into ROMs in the box.  Backup is just a finder copy away, as
is restore.  You can throw the disk in the trash and change cartridges
just like a floppy.  It spins up and down in a few seconds, and the
access time is claimed at 25ms, which is pretty good.

		--Darryl Richman
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Copyright (c) 1989 Darryl Richman     The views expressed are the author's alone
darryl@ism780c.isc.com 		       INTERACTIVE Systems Corp.-A Kodak Company
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