From: Paul Khoury (pkhoury_at_loop.com)
Date: Fri Oct 23 1998 - 03:19:22 EDT
>I haven't done any quantitative comparisons when it comes to speed, but my main purpose for it was to
have access to large amounts of disk space, make use of the spare dirves I have after upgrading the TP
with a larger HD, and save money by not going to SCSI drives or other PCMCIA solutions. (the H45 devices
are less than $100 retail) I wouldn't want to use it as my primary drive but it is very adequate for data
storage and perhaps archival types of storage. I suppose if you can compare a SCSI CDROM to a
parallel CDROM you might have some idea about the speed difference. I don't know because I haven't
tried it.
I have a SCSI HD here, but don't use it as much as I used to, because of reliability
problems (it came out of my HS's server, but they were throwing it out. It was on 24/7).
Comparing it to a computer connected via INTERSVR.EXE through parallel shows a BIG difference.
Even bigger comparing parallel to serial. Just be thankful that they don't have serial
based H45 devices. It'd be a waste of $100.
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