Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!hf07+ From: hf07+@andrew.cmu.edu (Howard Haruo Fukuda) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: The word from Quantum concerning 3.5" 40/80 Drive Fixes Message-ID: Date: 15 Nov 89 04:53:04 GMT References: <7451@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> Organization: Class of '90, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 29 In-Reply-To: <7451@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> According to MacWeek, Quantum has designed new 1" high 3.5" LPS (low profile series) hard drives. The sizes were 52mb and 105mb with 17ms access time and with the same 64Kbyte DisCache, time can drop to below 12ms. But does anyone know if they have changed the lubricant on the drive? According to MacWeek, these drives will start shipping in quantity in February and will be OEM priced lower than the current Pro-Drive series drives. I'm thinking of waiting for the new series of drives instead of buying one now. I have no idea what the engineering specs are on the drives, but if the lubricant is thickening from humidity absorbtion, then the ROM change seems to be like putting in a stronger water pump in your car to keep water from freezing in the cooling system when you should be adding anti-freeze. Is it too much to expect going to the source of the problem instead of making a "hack"? Being that my mac may spend a lot of time in Hawaii which is surrounded by water and 80 degree year-round temperatures, "abnormally high humidity" is very common. -Howard Internet: hf07+@andrew.cmu.edu BITNET: hf07+@andrew.cmu.edu -or- hf07%andrew@CMCCVB -or- JNET%"hf07%andrew@CMCCVB" CCnet: hf07%andrew@CMCCVB