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In article <1992Apr10.164624.254@cs.mcgill.ca>
samurai@uriel.cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy Brockbank) writes:

>Hello.

>I will be purchasing a 1.2 gig hard drive (external) and am
>wondering if anyone has had any problems with the reliablity
>of this drive.

I bought a Maxtor P0-1 (1.035 GB) drive from Tecor not long
ago.  It's installed internally in my home cube.  The
installation was simplicity itself.  And btw the internal
engineering of the NeXT cube is a high-quality thing, IMO;
the drive cage slips right out, you pop the new drive in,
hook up the cables, put the cage and motherboard back in,
boot from the OD (of course, you *do* have an OD, don't you?
All the best people do :-), the new HD is recognized and
initialized correctly, you copy your user files over to it,
and away you go.

After running continuously for about five weeks (certainly
not a test of reliability), all I'm prepared to report is
that it's working perfectly and is one of the quietest
drives I've ever (not) heard.  Not *quite* so quiet as the
Maxtor 8380 I took out, though; that was simply *silent*!

Anyway the Panther cost $1835.

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