CD-Quickshare Comparison Page

Are you faced with the dilemma of trying to figure out a fast, yet inexpensive way to make all your CD-ROM titles available to everyone on the network? If you are considering one of those new 64X SCSI CD-ROM towers - think again! For half the price it would cost to connect a 14 Bay CD-ROM tower to a PC, you could install MA32+. All in less time and with unlimited capacity for additional CD-ROM titles. Before you make your decision take a closer look at this comparison:

14 Bay CD-ROM Tower

Price - $3300

32X SCSI CD-ROM Tower

SCSI Card

Features

Supports very limited number of simultaneous users

As Equipped, supports 14 CD-ROM titles.

Expansion to 28 titles requires doubling hardware - Total Cost -------OVER $6,000!

Slower response time even with the top CD-ROM drives available

Significant impact on server and network performance

No software license metering

Cannot access CD titles that require local drive mounting

No security access to each CD-ROM title

Requires connection to NT or NetWare server

MA32+ and 40 GB Hard Drive

Price - $1645 ($948 Education)

Network Version (SRP $1599 / Education $999)

40 GB Network Hard Drive ($150)

Features

Supports up to 250 workstations

Unlimited CD images (dependent on available HD space)

As equipped, supports an average of 160 CD-ROM titles!

Expansion to 500 titles requires only a larger hard drive -Total Cost ~$1,995 and only $1,198 for Education

Access time 25-100x faster than any CD-ROM drive

Little to no impact on server and network performance

Software license metering

Not a problem! Unique local drive emulation networks local-only CDs!

Set security access to each CD-ROM title

Works as if CD-ROM Title is in an actual local CD-ROM Drive

MA32+ is the preferred choice for sharing CD-ROM titles over a network. At one half the price or less of traditional CD-ROM towers, you can purchase the only software solution that offers unlimited capacity to share and add CD-ROM title with MA32+

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