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From: jbh@trsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Rumors of poor performance of 3.5"
Message-ID: <216100118@trsvax>
Date: 9 Aug 89 14:32:00 GMT
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Nf-From: trsvax.UUCP!jbh    Aug  9 09:32:00 1989


 Personally, I have had very good experiences with 3.5 drives. I just
 checked the 3.5 (Sony?) in my Tandy 3000HD (286,10Mhz). A 'dir a:\' on a
 disk containing 37 files completed in about 3 seconds; copying a 16k file
 from the 3.5 to the hard disk took just under 3 seconds. A Toshiba 3.5 on
 my Dell 310 (386,20Mhz) seems to perform just as well.
 Using Fastback 2.0 to perform backups/restores to a Priam 150M ESDI, there
 are times when the HD cannot keep up with the floppy! This happens when
 LOTS of small files are being restored to HD, so the buffers are filled by
 the floppy, and the HD must create each file.
 In summary, I am very happy with 3.5 performance, and love the durability
 and reliability 3.5 gives me.