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From: s320@cs.utexas.edu (Spring 90)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: HD recommendations wanted
Keywords: Ehman, hard drive, SIMM
Message-ID: <29@dasht-i-.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 26 Mar 90 20:08:33 GMT
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <20198@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> stevel@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Steve Ligett) writes:
>In article <5758@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> desdemona!vita@steinmetz.UUCP (Mark F Vita) writes:
>*In article <2836@mtuni.ATT.COM> psu@mtuni.ATT.COM (Paul Siu) writes:
>**... You'll lost the second drive.
>*
>* This is no longer true...The hard drive mounts right on top of the
>* two floppies.  It's kind of a tight fit, but it does work.
>
>We've seen a number of internal drives setups like this in our shop.
>We see them when the hard drive bumps into the crt circuit board, and
>snaps the neck of the crt off.  I'd be worried about going with this
>setup unless
>
>1.  the SE has the old horizontal crt circuit board (with the old fan)
>2.  the drive going in is one of the new 1" high (low profile) ones
>3.  the SE is going to stay put - it doesn't travel from home to
>    office (or school, etc.)
>
>--
>steve.ligett@dartmouth.edu or ...!dartvax!steve.ligett

I work in the service department in our campus reseller, and
I've been the one who has installed hard drives into 2 floppy
SE's most of the time.  I've had to deal with both horizontal
and vertical brackets, and about 3 or 4 different types of drives.

The only problem we've found after installation is interference
when the drive is seeking, but only on some machines (not with
a specific drive, either.)

However, most of the suppliers ship the drives with brain dead
brackets, so our policy is to (usually) do only Rodimes, because
they come with a special bracket designed for this purpose.

I have no financial interest in Rodime, and am just speaking
from experience.  My opinions are my own. (Like the MicroCenter
knows I have an opinion...ha!)


Ted

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