RE: CD-Rom vs 1/2 inch tape

It depends.

The first CDROM drives shipped were 4 speed,
i.e. 4 * 150 kB = 600 kByte per second
MAXIMUM theoretical read speed.

New machines (6xx generation) come with 8 speed drives,
which makes 1.2 MByte per second.

Regards,
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-----Original Message-----
From:   Gary Feinstein [SMTP:gfeinste@planethollywood.com]
Sent:   Friday, April 24, 1998 8:59 PM
To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject:        CD-Rom vs 1/2 inch tape

Just out of curiousity, how fast does the AS/400 CD-rom drive read
data.

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