Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!motcid!wolfson
From: wolfson@motcid.UUCP (Steve Wolfson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Hard Drive for an SE
Message-ID: <4425@turquoise1.UUCP>
Date: 15 Aug 90 14:45:23 GMT
References: <1990Aug14.134331.4693@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.misc
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jcoper@ccu.umanitoba.ca (D. Joseph Creighton) writes:

>I'm going to be getting myself a nice 20 or 40 Mb external hard drive for
>my SE and would like a few (informed) opinions on the available brands out
>there such as Rodime, Jasmine, Apple, etc.

	Most of the third party drives use either quantum or seagate
mechanisms, which they bundle with a power supply, box, connector
and maybe some software.  Quantum is what goes into apples from Apple,
they are also used by Sun.  They are faster (19ms versus 28ms seek times).
If your budged allows I am very happy with a 45 meg removable media based
on the Syquest mechanism.  The cost is stiffer about $600, but you can
by more drive in 45 meg hunks for $70 each.  Thus the convience of
floppies with the storage of a hard drive.