Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wugate!dinorah!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!merch!cpe!hal6000!trsvax!jbh 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 References: <2368@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> Lines: 12 Nf-ID: #R:bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu:2368:trsvax:216100118:000:728 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.