Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!husc6!cmcl2!phri!cooper!joseph From: joseph@cooper.cooper.EDU (Joe Giannuzzi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Advice sought on 170+ Mb drives Message-ID: <2925@cooper.cooper.EDU> Date: 10 Sep 90 20:01:02 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: The Cooper Union (NY, NY) Lines: 26 in article , leo@duttnph.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart) says: > > I have been looking through september's MacWorld trying to make up > my mind about what kind of external hard disk to buy. > > I have narrowed my choices down to the following three advertisements: > > MacLand has a Quantum 170 Mb 15ms drive for $949,- > Alliance Peripheral Systems has a Quantum 170 Mb 12ms drive for $999,- > Ehman has a 180 Mb (no access time mentioned) drive for $900,- I have an APS Quantum 170 Mb and to date have had no problem with it (about 6 months of fairly heavy usage). The drive is fast (it boots my INIT full System 6.0.5 almost three times faster than my Apple 20 Mb internal). The external drive has both a power indicator and read/write indicator, and a SCSI selector switch. All APS drives come with 12 Mb (or thereabout) of public domain software. One thing you must consider no matter what drive you get is the size of your Desktop file. If you have too many files you will start having Desktop related problems. Therefore you must either have many partitions or get a copy of the Desktop Manager from Apple. Hope this helps. Joseph -> joseph@cooper.cooper.edu OR cmcl2!cooper!joseph Disclaimer -> Reality is just a figment of your imagination.