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- From: 90taobri@CHASM.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: a question of storage
- Message-ID: <9301030143.AA20676@chasm.scar.utoronto.ca>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 01:43:43 GMT
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- Organization: MuGS Research and Development Facility
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- The following revelation escaped Jimmy Shaw's lips:
- >
- > Hi, I am currently considering adding a removable mass-storage device
- > to the my GS, and I am debating between the Syquest-45 removable
- > HD vs. the new 21 meg floptical HDs. And I like to hear from those
- > of who who has experience with either or both devices.
-
- The First National Bank Of Dad has given me generous loan this term, so
- I might be getting a floptical soon. ;-) Picking the floptical over the
- Syquest was easy:
-
- 1. Flopticals are smaller and a lot easier to carry around.
- 2. An external floptical drive takes up less room.
- 3. Media is cheaper on a per-megabyte basis.
- 4. Will read MS-DOS 720K and MS-DOS/ProDOS/Mac 1.44-meg disks.
- 5. Flopticals are newer, therefore they are more cool. :)
-
- > But the storage is only 21 megs (probably less, since formatting takes
- > up some space, I don't know how much),
-
- Formatted is 20.8 megabytes, if I remember correctly.
-
- > Since I do plan on using the removable as a backup device, as well as a
- > primary storage on the GS, the size of the media is an issue.
-
- Hey, almost *anything* is better than flipping a hundred 800K disks to
- back up my hard drive. Now I need only five flopticals.
-
- > and the RamFAST SCSI card rev. B board, with ROM 3.00(something), I
- > will probably need to upgrade the roms again to work with the
- > flopticals.
-
- Rev B? Do you mean Rev D? I have 3.00k which should work OK with a
- floptical drive. 3.00l is the latest, unless there has been yet another
- upgrade.
-
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