Multimedia developers should look for a higher-performance drive with a rate of about 5 MBps. S A better drive will also have an intelligent on-board cache to buffer and manage recently accessed data based on access patterns, compared with a simple buffer that simply stores recently accessed data and overwrites that data regardless of access patterns. An intelligent 512K cache will improve the efficiency of the drive. The popularity and portability of this 100MB drive make it easy to share Zip disks with others or take the drive with you on the road. The perfect hard disk complement.
Some drives are portable.
The new CD-Rewritable drives let you reuse the media. Tape A range of choices for personal and network backup, from 800MB desktop drives to 8GB server solutions. Tape is slower and less versatile than other types of drives but has a much lower cost per megabyte. An alternative to a floppy disk drive, this drive reads standard floppy disks and can write to proprietary 120MB disks.