Date: Wed, 28 Jan 98 09:33:19 -0800 From: Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com> To: "FreeBSD Hardware" <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 3M LS-120 support ? Message-ID: <199801281730.JAA06334@mail2.sirius.com>
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On 1/28/1998 6:40 AM, Oliver Fromme (olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) said: >I'd recommend to buy an MO drive. Those 640 Mb MO drives are >really nice. Sure, the drive is somewhat more expensive, but >in the long run you save money, since the disks are considerably >chaper than ZIPs or LS120 floppies. If you're not in a *real* hurry to get a removable, it may be worthwhile waiting for the Orb to show up. They were at the SF MacWorld with some samples but nothing shipping just yet. <http://www.castlewoodsystems.com>; was displaying a 2Gb removable drive. The drive plus one 2Gb cartridge will cost $199. Each 2Gb cartridge will cost $29.95 each. It's a single-platter hard disk with 12.5ms access and throughput good enough for streaming video. The cartridge and drive are about the size of a Zip cartridge and drive. It should be available in a few months. I believe that the initial product will be IDE-based with SCSI coming somewhere down the road. The big question is going to be reliability for an unproven new drive. Still, at this price it is awfully tempting. -- Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com>
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