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Re: Re: capacity of magnetic media

Subject: Re: Re: capacity of magnetic media
From: Walter Knapp <>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 22:47:11 -0500
From: Dan Dugan <>

> I note in dealer listings that 3.5" MOs can be bought with capacities 
> from 128MB up to 1G. What capacity do you use? Do you think the 
> smaller capacities have wider (more reliable) tracks? Are the drives 
> made in different capacities, or is it just the disc?

As a farther note on this subject of reliability differences you can 
note that the technology used changed quite a bit with the 1.3 gig and 
2.3 gig disks. Read the white paper:
http://www.fcpa.com/download/download/mo-drives/msr-whitepaper.pdf

The new technology is more complex, and one could say that each 
additional layer of complexity adds more failure modes. I cannot say, as 
I've used so few of the higher capacity disks. So far no failures, but 
it's a small sample. What I've read about it would indicate it's no more 
likely to fail in other user's experience.

Walt




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