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From: liggio@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Vincent J. Liggio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,misc.forsale.computers
Subject: Re: 170Meg Wren Hard Drive for sale (SCSI)
Message-ID: <1990Oct1.002316.4297@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 1 Oct 90 00:23:16 GMT
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In article <3452@uniol.UUCP> weihrich@uniol.UUCP (Thomas Weihrich) writes:
>niko@du248-16.cc.iastate.edu (Schuessler Nikolaus E) writes:
>
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>>$1100?? I'm quite sure I saw a 210MB quantum for < $1000 in the last
>>MacWorld I saw.....
>
>Mr. Eric Zamost arranged a deal for 300 Megs Wren IV s for 950 US$ 
>about two month ago...


Only problem with that is that it is not SCSI-2 compatible, nor do the
drives do synchronous transfers.  This limits the drive's transfer speed
and it will be going out with the SCSI-1 specs.  Only Wren series V- do
synchronous transfers, and the only drives so far that are SCSI-2 are
Quantum drives, and they are hard to find because of their demand (large
backorders).  SCSI-2 should do up to 5 Mb/sec (yes, megabytes) at its peak
speed with the proper controller.

Vince