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- From: drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: LaCie hard drives
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- Date: 22 Jul 1992 23:00:17 GMT
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- In article <+jsxqzf@rpi.edu> johnsh@aix.rpi.edu (Hugh Witt Johnson) writes:
- >If anyone has had experience with LaCie external hard drives, your thoughts
- and
- >recommendations would be appreciated. I am in the market to purchase a 100M-
- >class drive for my IIcx, and have read a lot of literature proclaiming LaCie
- >drives as one of the best available. I called LaCie, and their 100MB external
- >is selling for $469. Does anyone know of any other reliable (Quantum based!)
- >external drives at this size that beat that price?
-
- Don't buy it from LaCie. All that literature you've seen trades on their
- formerly excellent reputation, which they are assiduously destroying. Alliance
- Peripheral Systems seems to be the favored vendor around here - and they're a
- bit cheaper, too. See their ads in the back of any Mac mags for contact info.
-
- David Gutierrez
- drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu
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