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Article #25416Quiry about the reliability of Atari hard disks
From: gjphw
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1987 16:06
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1987 16:06
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I have the opportunity to purchase an Atari 20 Mbyte hard disk for our
1040ST. The drive appears to be in good condition though it comes used and
without documentation (the manual may not be very informative anyway). I am
seeking comments from people who have experience or hearsay knowledge about
this drive.
How reliable is this drive? What problems are likely to occur? Can most
crashes be accommodated by the spare capacity on the disk? If it requires
repair, what is likely to fail and how much does it cost to get it fixed?
Does the drive come in decorator colors?
A more general question concerns the relative merits of having a hard disk
drive versus using a large RAM disk for program development. While a hard
disk appears to be in vogue, wouldn't a large RAM disk in memory serve even
better for quiet and fast temporary storage?
Thank you for mailing your comments.
Patrick Wyant
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Naperville, IL
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