Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!sgiblab!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!black.clarku.edu!black.clarku.edu!rmohns From: rmohns@black.clarku.edu (Joker) Subject: Re: $169 CD-ROM Double Speed drive is a good deal? Message-ID: Organization: Clark University (Worcester, MA) References: Date: 25 Mar 94 03:50:32 GMT Lines: 36 In mike_nance@qmail4.sp.trw.com (Mike Nance) writes: >In article , >henyijen@utxsvs.cc.utexas.edu (Henyi Jen) wrote: > >> Pals: >> >> I just read sunday's paper and found that Best-buy sells Internal double spi >> CD ROM drive for $169.96, not including taxes. The ad shown is the Beethoven >> SuperSpin CDD-110 but I never heard of and the ad also said it includes CD >> audio control panel. >> >> My question is that if it worthwhile to buy this new product. If not, what a >> other choices. Please give me suggestions. Thank you in advance. >> >> Henyi >I have a local computer swap meet and that is a better price than I could >get there and the prices at the swap meet are very good. Just make sure >the access time and data transfer rate is goo. >Not positive but I think good access time is 150 and transfer is 300. >Anything higher in the access and/or lower in the transfer may not be >suitable Good Data Transfer Rate: 300 (this is the standard 2x speed (2x150)) Good Access time: < 300ms Most drives have 320ms access time (which is why a good cache is an excellent idea -- Lightening CD is a good one). Some have 295 or 300, mostly expensive SCSI drives. But definitely avoid a drive with an access time greater than 330 ms -- that's over 2/3 of a second right there! Rob rmohns@black.clarku.edu