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From: wwtaroli@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Bill Taroli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: In search of an honest hard disk
Message-ID: <968@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 7 Oct 89 18:46:40 GMT
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Reply-To: wwtaroli@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Bill Taroli)
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In article <5092@shlump.nac.dec.com> long@rainbo.enet.dec.com (Richard Long) writes:
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>Since I'm currently looking to replace the INTERNAL hard drive in my SE with a
>higher capacity unit, I find this somewhat disconcerting.  So, the question: 
>What to buy, if anything?  I'm looking for something in the 60MB range, quiet,
>fast, and cheap (mutually exclusive, right?).  I was thinking about the 45MB

I may have not seen the latest and greatest of hard drives, but I'm not aware
of any 60Mb HD that's in 3.5" format.  The only problem with sticking a HD
internally in an SE is that there's little room left for a 3.5 mounted either
in the floppy bay or vertically, let alone for a 5.25" drive.  I understand
that it would be a literal impossibility.

The HD that I have, a 46Mb 157N Seagate, had operated flawlessly since I had a
bad SCSI driver replaced.  This shouldn't give you the impression that Seagate
drives are bad, nothing could be further from the truth, but the problem was
the software written by the distribution company that I purchased the drive
from...

As far as price goes, I don't know what they are in general for 157N's, but I
payed $650 - $700 for mine when I purchased it a while back.

Bill Taroli
WWTAROLI@RODAN.acs.syr.edu