From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 28 09:30:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA02537 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 09:30:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail2.sirius.com (mail2.sirius.com [205.134.253.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA01938 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 09:30:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from parag@mail.codegen.com) Received: from [192.168.100.101] (ppp-astk06--063.sirius.net [205.134.241.63]) by mail2.sirius.com (8.8.7/Sirius-8.8.7-97.08.12) with SMTP id JAA06334 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 09:30:00 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199801281730.JAA06334@mail2.sirius.com> Subject: Re: 3M LS-120 support ? Date: Wed, 28 Jan 98 09:33:19 -0800 x-sender: parag@mail.codegen.com x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v2, June 6, 1997 From: Parag Patel To: "FreeBSD Hardware" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. 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