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From: asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Disk and memory questions
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Date: 21 Sep 90 19:06:58 GMT
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In <428@scubed.SCUBED.COM> warner@scubed.com (Ken Warner) writes:

>In article <9484@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> whelan@huey.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Jerry Whelan) writes:
>>	How many drive bays are there in a slab?  Can I add an additional
>>3.5" hard drive?
>>	And what if I crash my hard disk?  Is it possible to boot from
>>floppy?  I heard someone mention that the system is available on

>...and can third party hard drives be added?  And are they SCSI?  And what
>about more memory--where can you get it and how much will it cost?

(I just love having the brochure/tech specs right in front of me)

1) There is one floppy drive bay located on the side like Sun
Sparcstations.  There is one hard drive 'bay'.  You have your choice of
105/340 Meg drive.  I'd get the 340 if I were you.  You might be able to
rig up a second harddrive where the floppy drive is, but there isn't any
room elsewhere.

2) You can add additional drives up the wazoo (well, maybe not that
many) thru the SCSI port.  Both floppy, and harddrives are available
that you can plug into the SCSI port.

3) Boot from floppy?  hahahaha!  No offense, but it'd probably take you
longer for you to boot from a floppy, than it would take you to go find
another hard drive and install it!  And the disk swapping!!!!  Don't
even consider it!  Not unless you are a glutton for punishment.

4) The only way you can add third-party hard drives is thru the SCSI
port.  And, yes, there are lots of third-party SCSI drives!  Go look in
a Mac magazine, you can get great prices on em.  The ones in the NeXT
are Quantum drives, if the picture of the internals of the slab are
accurate.  There are maybe 'other' ways to add drives, but why would you
want to do it any other way?  Except maybe as a network.

5) Memory: There was a post from a guy in misc.forsale.computers saying
that he'd seen 1 Meg 80ns SIMMs for < $50.  4 Meg SIMMs I'd imagine are
at least 4 times that (~200).  Again, look in any Mac magazine, and go
buy there!  If you buy from NeXT, be prepared to pay the price.

Any of the Mac magazines (MacWorld is good) will have a LOT of companies
selling stuff at great prices.  Check em out.  The price is almost
assuredly going to be a LOT better.

-Cubite (wanna be) K