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Date: Sun 21-Oct-1991 14:29:09 From: alanlb@thorcs.vt.edu (Alan L. Batongbacal) Subject: 3.5" internal--recommendations needed Hi there! I'm planning on buying an 8/105, after which I intend to purchase a 3rd-party 3.5" drive to replace the 105. I need some input on what drives are available. The drive should give at least 400MB formatted and (of course) I should be able to boot from it. Ideally, it shouldn't cost more than $1300. Is there such a drive out there? -alan -alanlb@csgrad.cs.vt.edu
Date: Sun 22-Oct-1991 15:09:06 From: brian@beerwolf.umd.edu (Brian Cuthie) Subject: Re: 3.5" internal--recommendations needed In article <1817@creatures.cs.vt.edu> alanlb@thorcs.vt.edu (Alan L. Batongbacal) writes: > Hi there! I'm planning on buying an 8/105, after which I intend to > purchase a 3rd-party 3.5" drive to replace the 105. I need some > input on what drives are available. The drive should give at least > 400MB formatted and (of course) I should be able to boot from it. > Ideally, it shouldn't cost more than $1300. Is there such a drive > out there? > > -alan > -alanlb@csgrad.cs.vt.edu Stay away from the Seagate. I had one of these for about a week and it was way too noisy (they emit a high pitched whine). Although, I will give it credit for being fast. At the time, my only other choice was a Quantum drive (the Pro-425). I have been pretty happy with it and had no problems. I just put it in a temporary enclosure, built an extended system on it, and swapped it with my internal drive. Works great. I can hear it seek, though this is much better than having it whine. These days I'm waiting for a decent 3.5" 1 Gig drive. You'd be suprised how quickly you will eat up 425 megs :-) -Brian
Date: Sun 22-Oct-1991 20:38:18 From: sritchie@cs.ubc.ca (Stuart Ritchie) Subject: Re: 3.5" internal--recommendations needed I am very pleased with my purchase of a Fujitsu 2624. This is a 520MB (formatted 512byte/sectors) 3.5" half-height. The specs on this drive are quite good. 12ms average access, 3.0MB/s asynch, 4.8MB/s synch, SCSI-2 interface, 4400 rpm spindle, 240kB read-ahead cache. The drive is quieter than the Quantum 105 internal. It is also noticeably faster for day-to-day work (probably due to the larger on-board cache). Doing the "standard" sequential disk(8) low level read, the drive maintains over 1.0MB/s transfer rate. Now if there was a real benchmark available, I would certainly be interested in posting the results. Unfortunately, I doubt it will fit inside the NeXTstation. If you're thinking about buying a 660MB drive, take a look at the 2624. It costs the same as the Fujitsu 2263, but it's 520MB and fast-fast-fast-quiet-quiet-quiet. (No doubt other vendors will introduce 3.5" drives with the same or better performance in the near future though.) Stuart
Date: Sun 23-Oct-1991 19:01:29 From: cnh5730@maraba.tamu.edu (Charles Herrick) Subject: Re: 3.5" internal--recommendations needed In article <1991Oct22.150906.19993@umbc3.umbc.edu> brian@beerwolf.umd.edu (Brian Cuthie) writes: > In article <1817@creatures.cs.vt.edu> alanlb@thorcs.vt.edu (Alan L. > Batongbacal) writes: > > Hi there! I'm planning on buying an 8/105, after which I intend to > > purchase a 3rd-party 3.5" drive to replace the 105. > These days I'm waiting for a decent 3.5" 1 Gig drive. You'd be suprised how > quickly you will eat up 425 megs :-) Heard about the new IBM 3 1/2", 1/2-ht, 1.2Gig, $1600.00 the other day. CNH
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