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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Shopping For Hard Drives..
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Date: 29 Aug 90 01:31:52 GMT
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In <90240.215220JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu>, JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT) writes:
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>You should be able to find a controller and Quantum 50 meg for around
>$600-$700 now.  They probably don't make them smaller because there
>is less demand.  Believe me, you will use up 40 megs pretty fast.
>The first 10 are system stuff (lots of fonts, WB accessories, basic
>text editors and word processor, etc.)  You may last for a month or
>so with 25-30 megs free.  Then the HD no longer becomes a luxury but
>basic equipment, and it just becomes natural to load it up.  Within
>3 months you're deleting things for room.  It happened to me, and most
>everyone I know.  Trust us - you want 40 or 50 megs minimum.

The following is the best posting I have seen on this subject. Originally
posted on Compuserve.

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#: 101125 S15/Ramblings
    30-Apr-90  07:19:42
Sb: A3000 Hard Drive Size
Fm: Thomas Holaday/SYSOP 70407,534
To: Mike Schiller 76416,3065 (X)

One of the 25 MHz models has a 40 MByte hard drive, and the other one has a 100
MByte hard drive.  That means the first one will fill up in about three weeks,
and the second one will fill up in about five weeks.  Note that it only takes
66% more time to fill up 150% more space.  Research here (unpublished) suggests
that a 500 MByte hard drive will fill become full upon installation.  I believe
the major obstacle to the production of hard drives with capacities in excess
of a gigabyte is that they become full during manufacture and consequently have
no usable space available for formatting information, etc.

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-larry

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