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Re: Why no third party solutions?



On Thu, 20 Oct 1994, Robert George wrote:

> Hey guys, you're forgetting one thing: the bandwidth of a PC's serial port
> is 960K bytes/sec. SCSI is 5M bytes/sec, and Fast SCSI-2 is 10M bytes/sec.
> Your're going to take a serious performance hit if you put a hard drive
> on your serial port.  It would be great for tape backups though.

If the purpose is for archival storage, it's a similar speed to tape or 
floppy and w/o the swaps. I will concur though that if I was gonna spend 
some money, I'd do the tape unit.