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- From: oueichek@gram (Ibaa Oueichek)
- Subject: Re: Which hard drive: Quantum or Maxtor??
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- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 01:27:35 GMT
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- Rich Long (long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com) wrote:
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- : In article <Jan.28.12.39.30.1993.28486@gandalf.rutgers.edu>, gnelson@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Gregory J. Nelson) writes...
- : >I'm looking to buy an external hard drive for my LC in the 200Mb range.
- :
- : I'm in the same boat, and in fact asked a very similar question a few days
- : ago. Check out the March 1993 MacWorld for a very informative disk review. It
- : seems (from that) the Quantum 240 is significantly faster than the Maxtor
- : 213, and is about $100 more.
- It's true that the Q240 is faster than the MX7213. But i don't think the
- difference will be noticable in the case of an LC, given that the SCSI
- port can't use the disk at 100% of its performance. And i think the Maxtor
- should be more reliable, because it uses less mecanic parts than the precedent
- Maxtor drives.
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