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Review: Gasteiner Hard Drive
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Wow! This one's small. Gasteiner have now released a hard
drive that can hold up to 525Mb of information all in a very
(and I mean VERY) small unit. Your first impressions on
seeing this drive are good ones. It looks very smart, and
looks very small - brilliant if you don't have much desk
space.
This hard drive from Gasteiner comes with a host adaptor to
connect it to your ST, and the drive itself is formatted
with the hard driver software already on it. On the back of
the drive you can see a fan, the power supply socket and two
SCSI ports (one for daisy chaining hard drives together).
How Gasteiner managed to cram all this into such a small
area is beyond me. Needless to say, there was no room for
the power switch at the back - it had to go at the front! A
good thing. The power LED doubles as a drive activity LED as
well, probably because there was no room to put two LEDs in
the drive!!
The software the drive comes with is a little bleak, though.
The GE-Soft formatting program could be a lot better,
although its free with the drive, I suppose. There's not
really that much to say apart from it's good. Oh yes - and
that it is available in any configuration from 52Mb up to
525Mb. Ring Gasteiner to get your configuration!
From: Gasteiner
Contact: 081 345 6000
Price: £259 for Falcon/TT, £299 for ST/STE (170Mb version)
The Uppers.....
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* Small and compact design
* Pretty cheap, considering
* Includes adaptor for ST/STE
* Already formatted and raring to go!
and the Downers
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* The formatting software is bleak
* I can't think of anything else (that was pointless - Ed!)
Overall: 95% * Gold Star Award *