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Started by Alexander Hay
Mon, 14 Sep 1992 17:54
Ever heard of this?
Author: Alexander Hay
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 17:54
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 17:54
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Hello Everyone!
Earlier this year I received the following piece of mail from a
friend who had pulled it off of the next news group in late 1991 (I
think). Anyway, I was just wondering if anyone had ever heard of this
before and if so what were the developments? As I am looking into a new
hard drive this would seem like a good lead to follow (assuming it
exists). You can reply via email or post it if you think others would
benefit. Thanks a lot for the help.
Alexander (alex@b62150.student.cwru.edu)
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********************************* ARTICLE ********************************
Attention NeXTstation Owners (or want 2 Bs)! This one's for you...
If you are like me, about to buy (or already own) a NeXTstation
because you don't have some huge pile of cash to fund a loaded
NeXTcube, then check this out!
Frank Hartlep (mauriti@opal.cs.tu-berlin-de) writes:
>> Coming soon:
>
>> Micropolis 2112 1 Gig. 3.5" hard disk drive
>
>> 10 ms access time
>> Typical power consumption of 12 Watts
>> Utilizes SCSI-2 interface
>> up to 10 Mbyte/s transfer rate
>> Supports command queuing
>> 256 Kbyte command buffer/data cache
>
>> Initial shipments to start in 3rd quarter of this year and expected
prices
>> of about $1/Mbyte in 1992
>
>> No release pricing was given.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Does anybody know if the company announced the price by now?
>
In my quest for a good drive buy, I came across this drive from
Micropolis. After checking into it and comparing against other
drives, this drive is really something!!!...
According to the data sheet, is should fit into a NeXTstation...
..According to the data sheets this drive is as quiet as the 105
Quantum (which most seem to think is quiet ~35db).
However, the drive isn't available until the end of this year.
Micropolis Sales told me that engineering samples for
they start full production and will sell for <$1000 (prob. $999.95).
So for 1/2 the price of getting a 340MB instead of a 105MB, you
get 1GB + 105MB. You can get the 105 a case, power supply, &
cable and use it as a portable hard disk (for taking your
work home [or home to work]).
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Maxtor 2112, cheap 1GB 3.5"drive (Was Ever heard of this?)
Author: Geoffrey Rutledge
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 23:38
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 23:38
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In article <192jk9INNigm@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> alex@b62150 (Alexander Hay)
writes:
>
> Hello Everyone!
>
> Earlier this year I received the following piece of mail from a
> friend who had pulled it off of the next news group in late 1991
> [deleted]
>
>
> Frank Hartlep (mauriti@opal.cs.tu-berlin-de) writes:
> >> Coming soon:
> >
> >> Micropolis 2112 1 Gig. 3.5" hard disk drive
> >
> >> 10 ms access time
> >> Typical power consumption of 12 Watts
> >> Utilizes SCSI-2 interface
> >> up to 10 Mbyte/s transfer rate
> >> Supports command queuing
> >> 256 Kbyte command buffer/data cache
> >
> >> Initial shipments to start in 3rd quarter of this year and expected
> prices
> >> of about $1/Mbyte in 1992
> >> No release pricing was given.
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >Does anybody know if the company announced the price by now?
[more deleted]
> ...According to the data sheets this drive is as quiet as the 105
> Quantum (which most seem to think is quiet ~35db).
>
> However, the drive isn't available until the end of this year.
> Micropolis Sales told me that engineering samples for
> they start full production and will sell for <$1000 (prob. $999.95).
> So for 1/2 the price of getting a 340MB instead of a 105MB, you
> get 1GB + 105MB. You can get the 105 a case, power supply, &
> cable and use it as a portable hard disk (for taking your
> work home [or home to work]).
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I have no experience with the Micropolis 2112 drive. For what it is worth, the
recent price, as quoted on clari.streetprice, is
Price
Micropolis 2112;1050MB;SCSI;3.5 ;HH;10ms; ;2288;SoundElectroFlight ;(d)
Micropolis 2112;1050MB;SCSI;3.5 ;HH;10ms; ;2379;DC Drives ;(d)
Micropolis 2112;1050MB;SCSI;3.5 ;HH;10ms;AT kit ;2529;DC Drives ;(d)
as compared with
Price
Hewlett-Packard;1050MB;SCSI;3.5 ;HH;10ms; ;2327;Direct Drives ;(l)
Seagate ;1200MB;SCSI;3.5 ;HH; ;SCSI-2 ;1999;HDSS ;(d)
Price
Seagate ST41200 1050MB SCSI 5.25 FH 16ms 1650 DAX Systems (b)
Micropolis 1598 1049MB SCSI 5.25 FH 14ms 1749 HDSS (d)
Micropolis 1528 1345MB SCSI 5.25 FH 14ms 1875 DC Drives (d)
Maxtor PO-12S 1027MB SCSI 5.25 FH 13ms 1599 HDSS (d)
Fujitsu M2266S 1079MB SCSI 5.25 FH 14ms 1806 S.A.G. Electronics (k)
Fujitsu M2266SA 1079MB SCSI 5.25 FH 14ms 1695 ARC (b)
Sources of Information:
(a) Comp-u-store, September 9
(b) Computer Hotline, September
(c) Computer Monthly, September
(d) Computer Shopper, September
(e) User-Contributed, September
(f) Vendor Catalog, September
(g) Comp-u-store, August 26
(h) Comp-u-store, August 12
(i) Ziff Buyers' Market, August 10
(j) Computer Hotline, August
(k) Computer Monthly, August
(l) Computer Shopper, August
(m) PC Magazine, August
(n) User-Contributed, August
I would be curious to hear people's opinions about the relative merits of these
drives as external units for a NeXT. I would like to upgrade my external
Quantum LPS210 to a larger capacity device!
--
Geoffrey Rutledge (rutledge@sumex-aim.stanford.edu)
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