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Article #26316Re: advice sought on hard drive pur
From: gillies
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 1988 20:08
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 1988 20:08
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I agree. If you can at all afford it (e.g. consider taking public transportation for 6 months) buy a bigger disk. On a Mac II, a 40Mb disk only holds ~160 8-bit screen pictures, for instance. When you buy the next larger disk, you usually get 50-100% more storage, and a 33% increase in speed. All for about 20-30% more money. The reason for this is the cost of the controller is practically constant. On a $500 20Mb disk, half the money is for the SCSI controller, and half is for the disk. On a $1000 disk, 25% of the money is for the controller, 75% is for the disk.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!pacbell!att-ih!ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucdcsp!gillies From: gillies@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: advice sought on hard drive pur Message-ID: <76000149@uiucdcsp> Date: 13 Mar 88 20:08:00 GMT References: <1189@ut-emx.UUCP> Lines: 11 Nf-ID: #R:ut-emx.UUCP:1189:uiucdcsp:76000149:000:577 Nf-From: uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies Mar 13 14:08:00 1988