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- From: alex@b62150 (Alexander Hay)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: Ever heard of this?
- Date: 14 Sep 1992 17:54:16 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- Keywords: Micropolis 1 Gig HD
-
-
- Hello Everyone!
-
- Earlier this year I received the following piece of mail from a
- friend who had pulled it off of the next news group in late 1991 (I
- think). Anyway, I was just wondering if anyone had ever heard of this
- before and if so what were the developments? As I am looking into a new
- hard drive this would seem like a good lead to follow (assuming it
- exists). You can reply via email or post it if you think others would
- benefit. Thanks a lot for the help.
-
- Alexander (alex@b62150.student.cwru.edu)
-
-
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- "They weep--from off their -=- "I feel lost anymore in a
- delicate stems -=- world that should be so
- Perennial tears descend -=- familiar..."
- in gems.--E.A.P. -=- -A.T.H.
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-
- ********************************* ARTICLE ********************************
-
- Attention NeXTstation Owners (or want 2 Bs)! This one's for you...
-
- If you are like me, about to buy (or already own) a NeXTstation
- because you don't have some huge pile of cash to fund a loaded
- NeXTcube, then check this out!
-
- Frank Hartlep (mauriti@opal.cs.tu-berlin-de) writes:
- >> Coming soon:
- >
- >> Micropolis 2112 1 Gig. 3.5" hard disk drive
- >
- >> 10 ms access time
- >> Typical power consumption of 12 Watts
- >> Utilizes SCSI-2 interface
- >> up to 10 Mbyte/s transfer rate
- >> Supports command queuing
- >> 256 Kbyte command buffer/data cache
- >
- >> Initial shipments to start in 3rd quarter of this year and expected
- prices
- >> of about $1/Mbyte in 1992
- >
- >> No release pricing was given.
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >
- >Does anybody know if the company announced the price by now?
- >
- In my quest for a good drive buy, I came across this drive from
- Micropolis. After checking into it and comparing against other
- drives, this drive is really something!!!...
-
- According to the data sheet, is should fit into a NeXTstation...
-
- ..According to the data sheets this drive is as quiet as the 105
- Quantum (which most seem to think is quiet ~35db).
-
- However, the drive isn't available until the end of this year.
- Micropolis Sales told me that engineering samples for
- they start full production and will sell for <$1000 (prob. $999.95).
- So for 1/2 the price of getting a 340MB instead of a 105MB, you
- get 1GB + 105MB. You can get the 105 a case, power supply, &
- cable and use it as a portable hard disk (for taking your
- work home [or home to work]).
-
- ****************************** END ARTICLE *******************************
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