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From: matt@frisbee.UUCP (Matt Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.ivideodisc
Subject: CD-ROM specs?
Keywords: CD-ROM
Message-ID: <324@frisbee.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 89 23:29:15 GMT
Organization: Maximum Storage, Colo Spgs CO.
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	Here's an easy one.

	Does anyone have the performance specifications for the various 
CD-ROM players used with IBM PC's?  I am particularly interested in the 
Hitachi box as I might buy one for the databases available on the disks.  

How does the random access of data compare to a hard disk?  Obviously
slower, but by how much?  Rotational latency?  Media lifetime?  MTBF?

These answers and many more will be summarized...

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