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- From: rutledge@mcs-next-11 (Geoffrey Rutledge)
- Subject: Maxtor 2112, cheap 1GB 3.5"drive (Was Ever heard of this?)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.233850.17377@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Reply-To: rutledge@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 23:38:50 GMT
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- In article <192jk9INNigm@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> alex@b62150 (Alexander Hay)
- writes:
- >
- > 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
- > [deleted]
- >
- >
- > 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?
- [more deleted]
-
- > ...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]).
- ===================================
-
- I have no experience with the Micropolis 2112 drive. For what it is worth, the
- recent price, as quoted on clari.streetprice, is
- Price
- Micropolis 2112;1050MB;SCSI;3.5 ;HH;10ms; ;2288;SoundElectroFlight ;(d)
- Micropolis 2112;1050MB;SCSI;3.5 ;HH;10ms; ;2379;DC Drives ;(d)
- Micropolis 2112;1050MB;SCSI;3.5 ;HH;10ms;AT kit ;2529;DC Drives ;(d)
-
- as compared with
- Price
- Hewlett-Packard;1050MB;SCSI;3.5 ;HH;10ms; ;2327;Direct Drives ;(l)
- Seagate ;1200MB;SCSI;3.5 ;HH; ;SCSI-2 ;1999;HDSS ;(d)
- Price
- Seagate ST41200 1050MB SCSI 5.25 FH 16ms 1650 DAX Systems (b)
- Micropolis 1598 1049MB SCSI 5.25 FH 14ms 1749 HDSS (d)
- Micropolis 1528 1345MB SCSI 5.25 FH 14ms 1875 DC Drives (d)
- Maxtor PO-12S 1027MB SCSI 5.25 FH 13ms 1599 HDSS (d)
- Fujitsu M2266S 1079MB SCSI 5.25 FH 14ms 1806 S.A.G. Electronics (k)
- Fujitsu M2266SA 1079MB SCSI 5.25 FH 14ms 1695 ARC (b)
-
- Sources of Information:
-
- (a) Comp-u-store, September 9
- (b) Computer Hotline, September
- (c) Computer Monthly, September
- (d) Computer Shopper, September
- (e) User-Contributed, September
- (f) Vendor Catalog, September
- (g) Comp-u-store, August 26
- (h) Comp-u-store, August 12
- (i) Ziff Buyers' Market, August 10
- (j) Computer Hotline, August
- (k) Computer Monthly, August
- (l) Computer Shopper, August
- (m) PC Magazine, August
- (n) User-Contributed, August
-
- I would be curious to hear people's opinions about the relative merits of these
- drives as external units for a NeXT. I would like to upgrade my external
- Quantum LPS210 to a larger capacity device!
- --
- Geoffrey Rutledge (rutledge@sumex-aim.stanford.edu)
-