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From: trims@athena.mit.edu (Erik G Trimble)
Subject: 20 Meg Floppies
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Date: Fri, 3 May 91 08:24:13 GMT
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These little suckers from Insite seem to be the answer to everyone's problems.
Currently, they read/write 800k,1.44M, and 20M floppies. Insite is working to tweek the drive so it can read/write to 80meg floppies.  The method of read/writing to 20 or 80 Meg disks is not in the type of disk, but in the read/write head. The new drives use an optical head to achive much greater track precision - thus, they can cram almost 50 times as many tracks as the old drives.  In answer to a previous question, this unfortunately means old floppy drives (including the "new" 2.88 ones) cannot be upgra







ded to take the new formats.

Insite claims that the drives have access times at approximately half way between those currently given by hard drives and floppy drives (ie. ~60ms)

These'd be great for backup, upgrade releases, video/sound storage!!!!
NeXT, DITCH THE 2.88!!!!!   GO FOR THESE BABIES!!!!!

oh, looks like the price to OEMs will be $400-$700 each. This is DIRT CHEAP!!!

anybody else in favor of the 20Mb floppies over the 2.88s?

-erik

No, I am NOT afiliated with INSITE (But boy, do I wish I was...)

