Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!bionet!ames!dftsrv!mimsy!mojo!russotto From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Advice sought on RAM and SCSI Message-ID: <1990Nov12.070113.2857@eng.umd.edu> Date: 12 Nov 90 07:01:13 GMT References: <9011112226.AA29980@apple.com> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (The News System) Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park Lines: 19 In article <9011112226.AA29980@apple.com> $CSD211@LSUVM.BITNET (Mark Orr) writes: > >I heard recently that there was a 83 Mb hard drive made by Seagate... >So I looked it up in the Roger Coats product list and lo and behold there >it was...at less than $500 > >Has anyone had any experience with Seagate drives? Any good (reliability >wise) ??? How easy are they to interface (i.e. are they SCSI or will you >have to hunt for some obscure controller board) ??? Small Seagates stink. They are slow, and unreliable. Most of them are not SCSI, though some are. BTW, in the "Mmintsh" magazines, 105MB Quantums are being advertised for around $500-- and these are fast, SCSI drives (the ones in those magazines come with Mmintsh mounting hardware and probably ROMS with Unit Attention disabled, but you should be able to find 'generic' Quantums elsewhere) -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu .sig under construction, like the rest of this campus.