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From: billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: How good is new Fujitsu 136M SCSI Drive?
Keywords: Hard Disk SCSI Fujitsu
Message-ID: <1800@agora.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 90 19:50:11 GMT
References: <19711@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: billsey@.UUCP (Bill Seymour)
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In article <19711@watdragon.waterloo.edu: apdonsig@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Allan Donsig) writes:
:There is a new SCSI drive out from Fujitsu.... 
:
:	136 MB, SCSI I, 25 ms, 3 1/2", 1 1/2" thin
:	$1499 CDN  (~1100 US) 
:
:This sounds great for a Microbiotics hardframe or A2091, though
:I wish I knew the max transfer rate...
:Does anyone have any warnings for me about this combination,
:or an alternate suggestion for a 100-150 Meg drive?  I'd like
:something at least as fast as 25ms.  It doesn't have to be
:a 3 1/2; I could mount it in the A2000's 5 1/4 bay.

	Seems as if the Quantum Pro-105S might be a better choice. It's
already very well supported by the SCSI interface manufacturers, and it's
quite a bit cheaper. I can find them easily here in the states for $750.
They format to 105 meg and the average seek is 19ms hardware and 11ms
when you take into consideration the cache...



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