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- From: traupman-jonathan@CS.YALE.EDU (Jonathan Traupman)
- Subject: Mac drives for the NeXT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.033823.3503@cs.yale.edu>
- Keywords: Mac hard drives
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- Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 03:38:23 GMT
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- This is my first post, so please bear with my foolish mistakes.
-
- I am planning on buying a NeXT sometime next year and have several questions
- about external hard drives for it:
-
- 1) I know you can use Mac drives on the NeXT, but what is the
- difference? I saw a 330MB, 17ms NeXT drive for $1749 while a
- 425MB, 8ms mac drive cost only $959. What besides the neat black
- case makes up for the $800 difference?
-
- 2) I've been led to believe that the difference in 1) is that the
- NeXT drive uses SCSI-2. What are the advantages of SCSI-2 over
- the SCSI-1 used in the mac drive?
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- 3) I'm a student. I have no money. Would I be sacrificing a great deal
- by saving the $800 and getting a cheaper, albeit non-SCSI-2, mac
- drive?
-
- 4) If I do opt for the mac drive, what sort of questions should I ask
- the vendor to insure that I don't get stuck with a $1000 doorstop?
- I've heard something about revision 17B something or other, but
- what exactly is needed for the drive to work with a NeXT?
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- 5) Totally unrelated question: I presently have a NEC CDR-74 CD-ROM
- drive that I'm using with my mac. I'm rather fond of this drive
- and am wondering if it is compatible with the NeXT.
-
- I appreciate any answers from anyone. Please email me at:
- jont@minerva.cis.yale.edu - no NeXTmail, please -- at least not yet!
- Thanks alot.
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