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From: herbw@midas.WR.TEK.COM (Herb Weiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.unix.aux
Subject: Info wanted on $1848 Fujitsu 680 MB 16 ms 5.25 inch drive
Keywords: Hard Disk, Fujitsu, A/UX, Silver Lining, Mac IIfx
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Date: 23 Oct 90 19:36:06 GMT
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Mac Direct (800-621-8461) has been advertising the following drive in
MacWeek:

Fujitsu 680 MB 5.25 inch Full Height Internal Drive
Including Brackets, Cables, Software
16 ms access time, 200,000 hours MTBF, 5 year warranty

This sounds like a very good deal!  Can anybody provide information on
the following:

1.  How does the transfer rate of this drive compare with other drives?
    (Either relative or absolute numbers would be useful here.)

2.  What is the noise level of this drive, compared to other drives?

3.  Is this drive compatible with the Mac II fx?

4.  Does Silver Lining support this drive?

5.  Is this drive compatible with A/UX 2.0?

6.  Has anyone had any experience (positive or negative) with Mac Direct?

I'll summarize responses if there is interest.
Herb Weiner (herbw@midas.wr.tek.com)