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From: strike@clmqt.marquette.Mi.US (Tim Bowser)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Seagate 196n & 4096n
Keywords: Hard disk
Message-ID: <1990Jul4.005910.8444@clmqt.marquette.Mi.US>
Date: 4 Jul 90 00:59:10 GMT
References: <1990Jun27.094934.16445@altitude.CAM.ORG>
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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.

Cannot find either drive you mention in the Seagate reference(s) I have.
The 296N ('N' indicating SCSI interface) is a 5 1/4" half height device.
The 1096N is a 3 1/2" half height drive, while the 3096N is listed as a
SCSI-2 interface.  All of these have roughly 26ms access times.

Given all of this, I'd go for the 3 1/2" drives for low power consumption
and low heat vs the 5 1/4" devices.

Just as a quick note: the 4096 is Seagate's largest MFM drive.  The Wren
and Swift family of drives they acquired when Seagate bought Imprimis.
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