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Article #26542Re: Hard disks
From: gillies
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1988 04:43
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1988 04:43
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The 40Mb and 80Mb Apple (and CMS) disks are made by quantum. The access time is 26.5ms on these disks. So the 60Mb disk is slower (40ms). In fact, 40ms is "unusually" slow for a 60Mb disk. That's probably part of the reason why they're cheaper. Seagate is the highest-volume manufacturer of sealed hard disks (this from a seagate employee). I think they make more than 1 million disks per month, and have almost half (50%) of the market for hard-disk units. So it is understandable that their drives are the cheapest.
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