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To: FuzzFace who wrote (4617)	11/4/1997 4:40:00 PM
From: AreWeThereYet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7685

Edwin, DVD is fast enough for AV purpose, although not as fast as today's HDD which can sustained a 8-11M/sec (this will improve when we see 4x DVD, 2x 3Meg/sec is already here). Most people use portable storage device for backup, archive, data transfer and DVD does the jobs nicely and only better. One direct competitor of Zip is LS120 which is also based on floptical (MO) technology. There are not many users need high-end performance for portable storage (you are an exception). A HDD cannot survive too much shock, maybe 3 to 10G, temperature and magnetic field are also a concern. I used mobile rack myself, but only for cheap backup solution but will consider upgrade MO or DVD when I have time. Back to the mobile rack, it is designed as a hot swappable SCSI device module in a RAID system and not for portable. Smart business people use the same idea on cheap EIDE device and I agree is good but it is definitely not a replacement for zip/jaz/dvd... BTW, 2.5M/sec sDTR is slow, don't trust your benchmark program because even a 1st generation DVD can do 1.5M/sec. A Fireball ST 6.4G should able to pump data at around 9Meg/sec, slightly smaller for Bigfoot 6.4 but it uses 5.25 form factor which won't fit into mobile rack. Good Luck aC