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Article #33799Re: MAX disk drives
From: Josh Hodas
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 1988 04:20
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 1988 04:20
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In article <12700@duke.cs.duke.edu> lsn@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Lars S. Nyland) writes: > >What's the deal with MAX disk drives? >They are advertised (in MacWeek) as 80mb drives, >12 ms seek time, and cost $977. >30 day money back, 2 year warranty. > >Anybody got anything to say about them? Well I've had my MAX-80i in my II for a week (replaced a 40 meg) and it's been great. The drive itself is from Quantum's new line of 3 1/2" Hard Drives which will replace the old 250/280 5 1/4" line (these are what apple has been using for 40 and 8o meg for a while). The actual acces time is something like 18 ms but there is a cache on the controller that gives an average access of 12ms over time supposedly. The drive definitely screams. I am not sure why they (Hardware House) has been up till now one of the few outfits offering the drive. I expect it to start getting pretty popular soon. Disclaimer: I am friends with someone working (short term while they deal with their sudden immense popularity) for Hardware House. Josh Hodas ------------------------- Josh Hodas (hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu) 4223 Pine Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 (215) 222-7112 (home) (215) 898-5423 (school office)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!eecae!netnews.upenn.edu!eniac.seas.upenn.edu!hodas From: hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Josh Hodas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: MAX disk drives Keywords: Fast & cheap Message-ID: <5895@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 29 Oct 88 04:20:25 GMT References: <12700@duke.cs.duke.edu> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Reply-To: hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Josh Hodas) Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 35