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From: lucifer@world.std.com (Kevin S Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Hard drive questions.
Message-ID: <1990Dec19.225431.20031@world.std.com>
Date: 19 Dec 90 22:54:31 GMT
References: <11776@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>
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Summary: buy the SCSI drive marketed for the Mac

In article <11776@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> mcgovern@handel.cs.colostate.edu (michael sea mcgovern) writes:
>I am going to be buying a hard drive for my IIgs, and was hoping that
>someone who knows about this stuff could give me some advice.  I am 
>looking at a 40 meg Q-drive, with a RamFast SCSI for about $700.  I
>have heard that hard drives that are advertised and formatted for the 
>Mac are much cheaper.  If I went this route, the RamFast would cost
>about $169, and the disk "Chinook SCSI Tools" would be about $30(I 
>assume I need this disk to do the low level format, or could that be done 
>with the RamFast utilities?).  Would the Mac drive still be cheaper with
>$200 overhead?  If so, is there any reason that I shouldn't buy one?
>I am not a novice, but am certainly not an expert either.  I wouldn't 
>mind paying for the ready-to-go II drive, but if it not too difficult, I would
>like to save some money, and possibly get a larger Mac drive (something like
>60 megs, which I can't justify at the II prices).  Any insight into this
>matter would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.
>

At the risk of incurring the wrath of The Unknown User ;-) (big smile):

I suggest you purchase the "Mac drive", and get the most Megs you can afford
because the price-per-meg goes down the more diskspace you buy. I own a 
Micronet MP100 3.5" portable 100meg drive that I got at a MacWorld for around
$900. The Apple DMA card cost another $100 and came with formatting utilities.
I've only filled about 1/3 of each of the first 3 partitions and none of the
4th so I have room to grow.

One of the neat things about the Micronet MP series is that they don't have
a separate power cord. You plug the SCSI cable to the SCSI port, and a 
3.5" diskdrive connector to your Smartport. Then you daisychain your other
drives off of the harddrive. Pretty nifty. Not to mention the fact that the
MP series is only _slightly_ bigger than the 3.5" diskdrive, make space 
considerations easier to deal with.

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