Mac drives for the NeXT

Article View: comp.sys.next.hardware

Article #565

Back to comp.sys.next.hardware Previous Next

#565

From: Jonathan Traupman
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 03:38

39 lines
2105 bytes

This is my first post, so please bear with my foolish mistakes.

I am planning on buying a NeXT sometime next year and have several questions
about external hard drives for it:

	1) I know you can use Mac drives on the NeXT, but what is the 
	   difference? I saw a 330MB, 17ms NeXT drive for $1749 while a 
	   425MB, 8ms mac drive cost only $959. What besides the neat black
	   case makes up for the $800 difference?

	2) I've been led to believe that the difference in 1) is that the 
	   NeXT drive uses SCSI-2. What are the advantages of SCSI-2 over
	   the SCSI-1 used in the mac drive?

	3) I'm a student. I have no money. Would I be sacrificing a great deal
	   by saving the $800 and getting a cheaper, albeit non-SCSI-2, mac
	   drive?

	4) If I do opt for the mac drive, what sort of questions should I ask 
	   the vendor to insure that I don't get stuck with a $1000 doorstop?
	   I've heard something about revision 17B something or other, but
	   what exactly is needed for the drive to work with a NeXT?

	5) Totally unrelated question: I presently have a NEC CDR-74 CD-ROM
	   drive that I'm using with my mac. I'm rather fond of this drive
	   and am wondering if it is compatible with the NeXT.

I appreciate any answers from anyone. Please email me at:
	jont@minerva.cis.yale.edu - no NeXTmail, please -- at least not yet!
Thanks alot.




-- 
Jonathan Traupman	  |	3 uses for PC compatables:
PO Box 3124		  |	  1. Door stops
Yale Station		  |	  2. Paper weights
New Haven, CT 06520-3124  |	  3. Objects to bludgeon PC users with...

Technical Details

Message-ID: <1992Sep15.033823.3503@cs.yale.edu>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!yale.edu!cs.yale.edu!traupman-jonathan

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!yale.edu!cs.yale.edu!traupman-jonathan
From: traupman-jonathan@CS.YALE.EDU (Jonathan Traupman)
Subject: Mac drives for the NeXT
Message-ID: <1992Sep15.033823.3503@cs.yale.edu>
Keywords: Mac hard drives
Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News)
Nntp-Posting-Host: minerva.cis.yale.edu
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 03:38:23 GMT
Lines: 39