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From: billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Seagate 196n & 4096n
Keywords: Hard disk
Message-ID: <1990Jun28.234521.4380@agora.uucp>
Date: 28 Jun 90 23:45:21 GMT
References: <1990Jun27.094934.16445@altitude.CAM.ORG>
Reply-To: billsey@.UUCP (Bill Seymour)
Organization: Betazoid Central
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In article <1990Jun27.094934.16445@altitude.CAM.ORG> gammal@altitude.CAM.ORG (Michael Gammal) writes:
:I have the option of purchasing either a seagate 196n or 4096n
:Both are roughly 85 Megabytes.  The 196n is 22 Mls and the 4096 is 28 Mls.
:
:I'd like to hear about the problems encountered with either hard disk and the
:advantages of each as well.
:
:The Price is exactly the same so that isn't something that I would be taking
:into account.  The difference between 22 Mls and 28 Mls doesn't bother me
:either so mention the pro's and con's ignoring the price and access time
:factor.

	There are a couple of big differences in those drives... the 196 is
a 3.5 inch drive and the 4096 is a full height 5.25 inch! A lot will depend
on what you have to mount it in... :-) The 196 should use a *lot* less power
and it has the data stored in an ARLL type format. That means the maximum
transfer rate should be much faster than the MFM 4096. You're right in saying
the average access speed doesn't really have much affect between the two, but
the data transfer rate should. You might want to look at the 296N (5.25 inch,
half height) also. They're selling for very little $$s these days.

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