Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ucbvax!husc6!endor!stew From: stew@endor.harvard.edu (Stew Rubenstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Megadrive Message-ID: <3532@husc6.harvard.edu> Date: 12 Dec 87 19:27:26 GMT References: <127200013@inmet> Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu Reply-To: stew@endor.UUCP (Stew Rubenstein) Organization: Aiken Computation Lab Harvard, Cambridge, MA Lines: 34 In article <127200013@inmet> ian@inmet.UUCP writes: > >Does anybody have any comments or experience with Jasmine's Megadrive. >How do the 10-meg floppies(?) compare to real hard disks in speed? >Do you find yourself with insufficient space for daily work? >(I'm torn between buying a 40-meg hard drive or something like a >megadrive which would give me more space but less at a time.) >I would appreciate any comments or advice. I have had four of them for a few weeks now. I like them a lot, but dealing with Jasmine can be a pain. Now that they have dropped their credit card surcharge, I'd go that way. Cash prepaid is not reasonable terms. I wouldn't try to use a single megadrive as your only large capacity disk. They are useful in two circumstances: 1, as backup or archival media, and 2, if you have a lot of machines and you want to check out disks and lock up the disks at the end of the day. They are not too slow, disktimer 2 numbers of R:149, W:266, S:27, compared to 98, 99, 36 for a Jasmine 20Mb direct drive. In other words, about the same as a slow hard disk (the AST-2000 leaps to mind with a shudder). The main problem with relying solely on the Megadrive is that it would be a real pain to copy a lot of stuff from one to another. If you had several small projects it might work, but in my opinion, it's backup media. Stew Rubenstein Cambridge Scientific Computing, Inc. UUCPnet: seismo!harvard!rubenstein CompuServe: 76525,421 Internet: rubenstein@harvard.harvard.edu MCIMail: CSC