Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 11:51:26 +0100 (MEZ) From: "Hr.Ladavac" <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> To: jonas@mcs.net (Lars Jonas Olsson) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Success with TORAY PD PhaseChange rewritable Message-ID: <199701151051.AA281755487@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> In-Reply-To: <199701141933.NAA22765@Venus.mcs.net> from "Lars Jonas Olsson" at Jan 14, 97 01:33:44 pm
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E-mail message from Lars Jonas Olsson contained: > > Hi, > I'm about to buy probably both CDR and PD drives. How well does PD > drives work? Do you have any www reference for lifetime, media costs, > etc? In particular how much does media cost? Is it any good for > archival? Is the Toray better/worse than other PD drives? I haven't had it for very long but it behaves, at least under NT (about a year, now). I can look up the www reference and post it together with the disktab (which is slightly wrong perhaps, but it worked :) The manufacturer "guarantees" 10 year data life which is *much* better than the tapes which are guaranteed for ONE year. Here in Austria the media is not exceptionally cheap (about 400 ATS--40 USD), but the drive is cheaper than a tape, and more useful, IMHO. It doubles up as a CD-ROM as well (quad-speed only, though). As far as archival is concerned, it is rather slowish--cca. 300 KB/s with dump overhead, 360 KB/s theoretical speed. It reads with quad-speed, though. It is marginally useful as an additional disk for day-to-day work; I use it for Radiance work where the write and read speeds are of absolutely no importance. Overall, I am happy with it as a personal archival media; it's good enough. TORAY is just a brand name; the thing announces its vendor as MATSHITA. My guess is they are all the same inside. TORAY name is the only one available in Austria, AFAIK (my cousin sells them :) so I cannot offer any comparisons. Hope this helped. /Marino > > Please send your disktab for the Toray. > > Jonas > >
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