🚀 go-pugleaf

I know that this topic has been discussed before, so excuse me if I'm
boring too many of you, but I've gotten interested in getting a hard
drive for my ST again recently, and would appreciate some input on the
following concerns.  One of the main reasons I became interested again,
is that I recently saw an add for the BMS 2000 (or 200?) [presumably
Berkeley Micro-Systems] controller card in a recent ST/Amiga catalog...I
think the name of the company in question has the name Brown in it, or
something like that.  Anyway, the controller costs $139 or something
like that, and it will work with a Seagate SCSI PC drive.  They also are
selling a shoebox type case with a fan and power supply for $99 (again,
I think this was the price).  What the ad did not say is what size the
power supply is and what size the fan is.

Now, the questions.  What are the advantages/disadvantages to using a
SCSI PC drive, rather than an MFM or RLL drive?  I have seen
descriptions of how to put together a hard drive with one of the latter
two, and it seemed more complicated somehow...I seem to remember having
to deal with more than one controller card, or something like that.
But, are the MFM and/or RLL drives better? Do they cost less?  Info on
any of these topics would be greatly appreciated.

Now, onto the case, power supply, and fan.  I thought the price for
these three things seemed relatively reasonable...the only thing is that
the sizes of fan and power supply weren't mentioned.  What sizes would
be OK, recommended, best, etc.?  And what sizes would be just plain
unsatisfactory?  Also, any other ideas about prices?  I guess I thought
that since they sold all pieces together, it might make more sense to go
that way, since presumably everything will fit together reasonably well.

Thanks very much in advance for any advice...you can post it to the net,
or send me email directly.


Addresses:
maxg@suvm.bitnet
ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu