Yeah, sign me up! I want to replace my sub 12 ms access time hard drive with a 150 ms access time DVD drive. There's a step in the right direction! LOL Besides, from what I hear the DVD drives are also limited to 8X CDROM max throughput rates also, which is about 1.2 Mbytes/sec. Whereas the EIDE Pio mode 4 has a burst rate of 16.6 Mbytes per/sec. (And JTS claims a SUSTAINED throughput of 3 Megabytes/sec on their new Champion line of drives with the embedded servo...)
Every moron from here to doomsday has been talking about diskless network drives, till I wanta puke! Just what I need, to be completely dependant on a network link for my storage space, and be running Java slowboat crapola on some generic machine. Heck, they may get Vic-20 performance out of a 333 Mhz Pentium 2 at this rate. The analysts really eat up that BS though, don't they? :)
By the way, I am impressed with the AV (Audio-Visual, i.e. continuous throughput) on the new Champion drives. That used to cost significantly extra $$$ until recently, and here is JTS doing it at the same price as everyone elses standard drives. I LIKE IT!
Back to DVD, from what I hear the movie moguls and such can't get it together on a copy protection format for the DVD drives, and they are delayed til Christmas. Not surprising. Remember what happened to the DAT (digital audio tape) drives. What, haven't you seen any DAT drives? (Me neither) They've been out for years, but the copy protection they built into them ensured that they couldn't make direct digital recordings of commercial recordings.... and the average consumer said "Stuff it!". Why pay a kilobuck for a maimed tape recorder?
I am staying in JTS till they show profits, which will probably be in two more quarters. I was encouraged by the latest quarterly earnings, and it will only get better. And, they have a 55 million credit line to draw on, so they aren't going bankrupt, even if they do post another loss next quarter.... |
