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Article #1Re: INFO-MICRO Digest V92 #79
From: LMLARS01
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1992 15:53
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1992 15:53
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In a recent issue, Keith Smith writes: >The 251 is a 40MB MFM drive. The ST-277 is an RLL drive with similar >Geometries (820 X 6). Both are junk. Avoid them like plague. Spend >$450 and get a Maxtor 7213 IDE and controller, and scrap the junk. BTW >the 7213 is 200MB. This statement about "junk" is nonsense. I have been running four ST-277N drives almost continuously for three years without a problem. (The "N" just means it has a built-in SCSI controller; otherwise the mechanism is the same.) I am quite pleased with the performance and reliability. However, I'd look carefully at the price because hard drives are pretty cheap right now. A bare Quantum 105 meg drive can be had for not much more than $300 and you can more than double that size for another $100. ============================================================================= Lee Larson lmlars01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu Department of Mathematics (502)588-6826 University of Louisville Louisville, Kentucky 40292 USA
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