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- From: J.M.Spencer@newcastle.ac.uk (Jonathan Spencer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.periphs,comp.misc
- Subject: price & mail order supplier of cheap hard disks?
- Summary: Looking for cheap HDD mail order
- Keywords: HDD, hard disk, mail order, ide, tape
- Message-ID: <BsGx2F.1nF@newcastle.ac.uk>
- Date: 4 Aug 92 16:42:14 GMT
- Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU
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- I want to fit a second IDE hard disk drive to my 486SX clone in order
- to have one for DOS and the new one for UNIX. Some form of tape backup
- device would be a good idea, too.
-
- A 200MB hard disk costs around L400-L500 (US$750-925) here in the UK,
- although I can claim some educational discount. I've no idea what tape
- drives cost.
-
- 1) What sort of price would a US mail order firm charge for a decent
- (eg ~15-18ms) 100MB or 200MB hard disk? And what about tape drives?
-
- 2) I'd be grateful for recommendations of *reliable*, *quality* mail
- order firms who might ship to UK. Contact address ideally would be the
- company's fax or email address, but voice or physical address would be
- ok. Ideal method of payment would be Visa or Mastercard.
-
- I don't read all the groups to which I've posted so all responses by
- email to me please. As usual, if the response is worthwhile, I'll
- summarise.
-
- -- Jonathan
-
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