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From: woods@convex.com (Darrin Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 1/3 or 1/2 height drives for IIsi
Keywords: IIsi, hard disk
Message-ID: <109561@convex.convex.com>
Date: 30 Nov 90 04:37:24 GMT
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In article <9847@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> sburke@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Scott Burke) writes:
>
>Can anyone post or send me information about the largest hard drives
>that will fit into a IIsi?  I know that a 1/2 height supposedly will
>fit, but that there may be gotchas with respect to power consumption
>if I also use a 24-bit color card or an accelerator at some point.
>
>The largest 1/3 height drive I've heard of is the Quantum 105LPS. Is
>Quantum going to come out with larger 1/3 height drives, or,
>alternatively, are there larger 1/2 height drives that don't use too
>much power?
>
>Scott
>

The drives in the IIsi must be low power consumption, preferably 1/3
height.  Apple GROSSLY underpowered the power supply and has been the
cause of a lot of 'accidents' with adding peripherals and third party
items that draw too much power.

As far as graphics and accelerator cards - just remember that whatever
card you purchase, it cannot use over 15w - that's all the power the
si can spare to the NuBus.

BTW - Did you know that the 8.24GC uses about 20w.  Apple can't even
make machines that work with their own hardware.

Blacksheep
Senior Systems Engineer

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