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From: chcu321@ut-emx.UUCP (Michael J. Liebman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: The Cheapest possible 105 meg Quantum???
Message-ID: <29471@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 4 May 90 13:16:22 GMT
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Reply-To: chcu321@emx.UUCP (Michael J. Liebman)
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 mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb) writes:
> paryavi@harris.cis.ksu.edu (Saiid Paryavi) writes:
>
>>I suggest APS at 1-800-233-7550.  They sell the Q105 for $599 and
>>$699 external. 
>>
>>Just a happy customer!
>
>Now, that's a truly astounding price for a Quantum 105.  One question, though:
>
>  Does anybody know if the Q105 comes with the RAM cache by default?  My LaCie
>is built on that drive, and it has a cache.  Is that something LaCie added?
>Does LaCie do anything else different and exciting to the mechanism, like
>changing the ROMs or something?
>
>I'm sorely tempted to buy one of these drive!!
>

I just purchased one of these.  It has a built-in cache, so APS claims
12 ms access times.  It comes formatted with a system installed (mine
had 6.0.4) and formatting and partioning software.  I proceeded to
partition my disk and install system 6.0.5.  I'm quite happy with it.
It sure seems fast, and a little quieter than the 13-month-old Apple
Quantum 80 Mb drive that went bad on me.  Sure is nice to know the
drive sold through APS comes with a 2-year manufacturer's warranty!

The only problem I've had is with a case of the screen jitters.  When
there is a lot of disk activity, my SE/30 screen jitters a very small
amount.  The service folk at APS have been very helpful and have
suggested some things that reduced the problem tremendously.  Since
this is related to the proximity of the disk to the CRT, I'm sure
there won't be any problems for externals or non-SE installations.

Feel free to e-mail if you have any specific questions.

Mike


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