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Article #39563Re: Mac SE dilemma
From: gillies
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1989 17:53
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1989 17:53
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Mac SE w/20Mb Hard Drive
MORE Con's:
1. The warranty on Apple's hard drive is a "generous" 90 days (*snicker*).
Most 3rd party drives come with 2-5 year waranties. Hard drives
often break by self-destructing, making it necessary to junk the
entire drive. So a long warranty is a NECESSITY.
2. The Apple drive is amazingly slow. Something like 85ms accesss time.
It is easy to get a 40ms or even 28ms hard drive from a 3rd party
company. This makes a WORLD of differences in certain applications,
especially databases and hypercard.
3. For about the same money, you can usually get a THIRTY megabyte
INTERNAL 3rd party drive that is faster, with a longer warranty.
Yes, a handful of companies make INTERNAL drives that let you keep
your two floppies and drive ALL in the SE case. This is extremely
convenient, and saves $100 for an enclosure, power supply, etc.
Go for the 3rd-party drive.
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