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- From: spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Picking a SCSI-hardrive
- Message-ID: <13AUG199201400967@vax2.concordia.ca>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 06:40:00 GMT
- Sender: usenet@daily-planet.concordia.ca
- Organization: Concordia University
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- News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41
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- Scott Alfter writes:
- >...and you're about to hear some more. :-) Someone in the local user
- >group bought a HD from LRO recently. She could never get the thing to
- >work right, nobody else could get the thing to work right, and LRO
- >"tech support" was, as I understand it, less than helpful. Avoid
- >these clowns like the plague.
-
- Well then, I doubt I'd buy anything from LRO at this point, even if they
- do have better-priced, better equipped hardrives. Also, I live in Canada, so
- having problems with a company arcoss the border can be a nightmare!
- At the moment I think I'll stick with TMS for the purchase of a hardrive, and
- RamFast SCSI. I may wait until they ship their drives with ELS Quantums though.
-
- >I'd also recommend against the 3.5-floppy-sized HDs. Hard drives get
- >fairly warm in normal operation. There's not enough space inside
- >those little boxes to stick a fan, so your HD fries. Find the desktop
- >space for the bigger cases with fans. The HD mechanism is likely to
- >make more noise than the fan anyway, and your HD will last longer. If
- >you don't have enough desktop space, you can get a longer cable and
- >stick the HD under your desk...I had mine set up that way for quite
- >some time.
-
- Are you sure about that? The TMS Shadow contains nothing inside the
- case that could cause any heat build up, especially since the powersupply
- (brick-on-a-rope) is kept outside the case. Even so it may use convection
- cooling, by air vents, so any small amount of heat that's produced (if any)
- would circulate out. If there's another source of heat in a TMS Shadow, please
- let me know... Then I'll probably stick with the TMS external "Pro" (would
- have to move my floppy disk boxes off the desk, but.... :)
-
- > _/_ Scott Alfter Internet: sknkwrks@cs.unlv.edu
- >/ v \ Call the Skunk Works BBS today! Fidonet: 1:209/765
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-
- Mitchell Spector
- spector@vax2.concordia.ca
-