[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Due to a high error ratio of a minidisc (which isn't a problem for audio)
> it is not as suitable for data as you'd think, which leads to a lot of
> redundancy, ie the disk will probably be much less than 140 Mb, more like
> 100-120
Huh???
1) MD-Data == 140MB.
2) MD-Data uses another error correction algorithm than MD-Audio
3) MD-Data uses another type of disk
4) MD-Data != MD-Audio
MD-Data was an attempt of Sony to introduce a portable media based on
MO technology. It had three major problems:
1) To expensive:
Drives costed about $1000,- at the introduction.
2) SCSI 2
MD-Data drives connected to SCSI-2. Back in 1994? (Rick, help me out),
during the introduction of MD-Data, SCSI-2 interfaces where expensive.
Almost at the same time, the ZIP drive was introduced. The media was
almost the same price, but the drive was about 3 times less expensive!
And it connected to the Parallel port!
3) To slow
150kBs was to slow compared to other portable media back then. You could
buy a 240MB 3.5" MO drive for a 'few' dollars more, that outperformed the
MD-Data drive.
Cheers,
Ralph -> Who is glad that there are other Dutch on this list.
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