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From: csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Questions about hardware
Keywords: Segate, Spectre GCR
Message-ID: <2874@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 11 Jun 90 13:20:51 GMT
References: <1039@unicorn.WWU.EDU>
Organization: CSD, University of Erlangen, W-Germany
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n8742883@unicorn.WWU.EDU (Perry Pederson) writes:

>I would like to buy a hard drive for my ST to use for both
>my ST and the Mac Emulator. Looking in the most recent issue
>of STart (7/90), a mail-order firm named Computability is
>selling a 49 Meg Segate hard drive for an incredible $295! Is this
>price for real (i.e. no "additional" hardware is needed for the
>drive), and has anyone out there had any problems with the Segate
>drives? The next lowest price offered by any other hard drive
>manufacturer is Supra, which is selling a 30 Meg drive for $499!

The Seagate ST157N which is most probably the one you're talking
about is 46.3 MB only and comes in two flavors: 28 and 40 ms
average access time. (ST157N-1 means fast version, ST157N-0
means youknowwhatitmeans.) I think $295 is a stand-alone price
without controller, housing and things like this.

>negative. Would Spectre be able to run off of the Segate (or any
>other) hard drive without too many problems?

Yep.

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