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- From: yl44729@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Rick Lin )
- Subject: Re: Recommendations on hard drives.
- References: <1icqetINN1og@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> <DRAND.93Jan6175139@spinner.osf.org>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 20:37:47 GMT
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- drand@spinner.osf.org (Douglas S. Rand) writes:
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- >In article <1icqetINN1og@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> dkmiller@unixg.ubc.ca (Derek K. Miller) writes:
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- > I'm in the market for a new hard drive. The old 40MB on my IIcx is, (a)
- > too small, and (b) having stiction problems. I'm looking for something
- > in the 100MB range, and am wondering about relative prices (I'm in Canada,
- > so I'll assume inflated exchange etc.) and reliability of various models.
- > I'd probably prefer an internal drive, but exterbal SCSI devices interest me
- > too. I want to know which brands and/or models you recommend, and bit
- > about speeds and reliability.
-
- >I like my Quantum 105 LPS. If I was buying today I'd get a 170 from
- >Quantum. Quantum seems to be specializing in small drives. If I was
- >getting a medium to large drive then I'd look for names like Maxtor
- >or Seagate. I've had good luck with these on work machines. HP also
- >makes some very fine drives.
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- I recommend Quantum too. I've seen an external Quantum 105MB drive for
- $310 in the January issue of MacWorld.
-