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In article <pdemaio.53...@draper.com>, pde...@draper.com (PDeMaio) writes:
|> 
|> >        That last bit with the flopticies is the most sensible out of your
|> >options.  If 4x cdroms cost $1000+ now, imagine how much 6x or 8x will cost in
|> >that time frame - or even 5 years from now.
|> 
|> I thought it would be good to mention that 4x drives 220 ms access times 160ms 
|> seek are available for about $450.  The next step should be at lest to 8x 
|> maybe even 15-20x.  The problem as I see it is going to be access times not 
|> speed.  Light moves very fast (about 3x10^8 m/s, last i checked) so high data 
|> transfer speeds should be easy to get, but the lenses, receptors and 
|> lasers that have to move to read the disk are much heavier than the heads 
|> needed to read a magnetic medium.  There may be a work around for this but I 
|> haven't seen one yet.
|> PDeMaio
|> 

Access times will go down as rotation speed increases. Quite a lot of the access
time is made up by rorational latency, that is the average time dhe drive will
wait after the head has arrived and stabilized until the wanted data appears
under the head.


|> Is that a light at the end of the tunnel or just an oncoming train?
|> 
|> 

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