Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uoft02.utoledo.edu!desire!cse0507 From: cse0507@desire.wright.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: GS Hard Drives Message-ID: <1348.2708b769@desire.wright.edu> Date: 2 Oct 90 20:51:05 GMT References: Lines: 12 In article , jerryk (Jerry Kindall) writes: > A SCSI drive with an Apple DMA card beats a Vulcan anytime. A SCSI drive > with a RamFAST card blows away a Vulcan. Sorry to say this, but while > Vulcans are of course a LOT faster than floppies, they're fairly slow as > far as hard drives go. They use cheap and slow Western Digital mechanisms > and occasionally Seagates. I'd reccommend Vulcans only to people who > really want an internal drive (lacking desk space for an external) and who > don't mind not being able to move the drive to their next computer system. I thought that the Apple DMA card was having availability problems. A couple people I know have tried to get them, but are waiting for backorders to be filled. They don't seem to be available in stores. Anyone know why?