Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!hamblin.math.byu.edu!news From: smithw@hamblin.math.byu.edu (William V. Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Hard Drives for the Next Message-ID: Date: 9 Oct 90 18:34:20 GMT References: <216@opus.NMSU.Edu> Sender: news@hamblin.math.byu.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Brigham Young University Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: rocks@nmsu.edu's message of 9 Oct 90 15:43:36 GMT rocks@nmsu.edu (Dave Rocks)writes: While perusing the 'disktab' on my next I found entries for 2 200mb hard drives; a Maxtor LXT-200S and a Conner CP3200. It would seem that such a drive would provide a more adequate base for a Next "slab". The price for a Conner drive is $1129(IDS) and I don't think the Maxtor would be far from that. Why isn't one of those drives available from Next. In any case they seem a cheaper upgrade to a usable machine than going all the way to 340mb. Does anyone have any reason these drives would not work in the Next? Would their be performance problems? Noise? Reliability? The key word here is *in*. These drives may not fit in the slab. If they do indeed fit, then the disktab entries will(should) work with the slab. However, you can find the 340 MB drives from third-party vendors at prices close to $1,100.00 I believe and 700 MB drives priced near $2,100.00 now.