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From: matthews@lewhoosh.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: MAC HDs, Music recording, etc.
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Date: 18 Dec 90 16:23:51 GMT
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In article <4302.276d5285@cc.helsinki.fi> jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi writes:
>Are these drives reliable (I guess they are since I have understood that
>NeXT uses them).

The Fujitsus have a 5 year warranty and 200,000 hours MTBF... I'd call that
pretty reliable.

>If these drives are advertised for Macs, is it possible to use them
>with a NeXTStation without any problem? (With appropriate cabel, of course.)

If it's true SCSI, it'll work.  Some Mac drives have funny ROMs in them
apparently, because Macs sometimes use funny SCSI, but as long as you keep it
external it should be fine.

>I am getting a NeXTStation with 105MB HD and I will soon get an additional
>600MB HD. This should be enough for program development and music
>composing? 

Oh God yeah...

>Is 8MB RAM enough? (I don't care, if the machine had to use
>virtual memory now and then.) Upgrading would be quite expensive since I
>have understood that I would have to buy 4 4MB SIMMS.

Enough is relative.  For one person it's fine.  My systems slows to a
moderately slow halt when another person or two logs in (and my HD gets
swapped to hell, too...).

>			Thanks,   Jouni

Velcome,
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