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- From: trich@crow.omni.co.jp (Timothy Richards)
- Subject: Re: Putting disk in an Indigo
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.075659.28075@crow.omni.co.jp>
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- Organization: Omnibus Japan, Inc.
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 07:56:59 GMT
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- steev@ipecac.esd.sgi.com (Motorin' Flarey Henderson) writes
- > In <1992Nov11.204741.28323@bradley.bradley.edu> guru@camelot.bradley.edu (Jerry Whelan) writes:
- >
- > > We are considering purchasing a 15 seat lab of indigos.
- > >and thus we'd like to put our own hard drives in the machines.
- >
- > Offhand, I'd say that the easiest way to connect your own HD is to connect
- > it externally. There may be some third party company that will sell you the
- > necessary goodies to install it internally?
-
- I agree, in fact it seems there are other advantages in using external drives.
- It is easier to move them to another type of machine. In fact why use an internal
- drive ?? is there a performance difference or is it purely a matter of
- appearances ? I assume one can also use an external drive as a system disk.
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