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To: steve goff who wrote (25356)	6/16/1997 2:17:00 PM
From: FuzzFace	of 58324

LS-120 writes at half the speed of a floppy - In Today's MF IOM: fool.com ******************************************************************************************* Subj: LS-120 Performance Test Date: 13 Jun 1997 02:46:42 EDT From: Robra After I finished work for the evening tonight and had the place all to myself (can you believe they actually trust me to be there by myself?) I decided to run some tests on the new LS-120s in our department. I ran some fairly basic tests because I was bordering on being late for my 7 year old daughter's first swim meet for the season. I only had time to test the write capability of the floppy drive portion. For an apple to apple comparison I compared the LS-120 floppy in a 133Mhz Compaq with the floppy drive in my 133Mhz Compaq. Both PCs have W95. As a side note I just had W95 installed on my work PC yesterday and and am very happy with its ability to handle some fairly intensive software applications. I performed 2 write tests on each PC using a blank 1.44 disk. The first test was 2 large files. One file was MSMAIL.EXE (300,560b) and MSMAIL.LES (530,030b) for a total of 830kb. The LS-120's floppy took 54 seconds to perform the operation and the same operation took only 25 seconds on the floppy in my Compaq. The second write test was to write several smaller files. I chose 7 files in the MSMAIL directory each less than 100kb. The 7 files totaled 252kb. The LS-120 floppy took 23 seconds to complete the transfer and it only took 12 seconds on my Compaq. My expectations were, based on previous reports, that I would witness something slightly less than the 3X to 5X speed reported by O.R. (or whoever). Folks, this slug has only half the performance of the legacy floppy drive. I had to see it for myself to believe it is really this slow. The marketing campaign on this product is a sham. I just can't believe even a handful of companies are willing to accept this inferior performance. As I find time later this week I will perform some write tests to the Imation LS-120 disk. They are really easy to find. On top of each PC containing the LS-120 is ONE LS-120 disk still wrapped in its original celophane since noone at my company has the faintest clue what these things are. I almost hate to ruin the pristine packaging. On a related note, the LS-120 is indistinguishable from a regular floppy so I have been wondering what happens when some unknowing soul (when someone finally figures out what these disks are for) tries to cram an LS-120 disk into a standard floppy drive. It will happen! How does the casual user distinguish between these different disks or drives? Well, I'll post after the next series of tests. P.S. Did I mention that during the write test with the floppy, the LS-120 was noticeably more noisy than the legacy floppy drive? *******************************************************************************************

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