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From: ersys!davem@nro.cs.athabascau.ca (Dave McCrady)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.misc,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Need information of Harddrives
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Date: 25 Jan 91 18:10:53 GMT
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dbullis@cognos.UUCP (Dave Bullis) writes:

> In article <1991Jan17.215221.20223@skypod.uucp> marc@skypod.uucp (Marc Fourni
> >got it narrowed down to three possibilities:
> >	1) Maxtor 4170 158Mb 14ms ESDI hard drive  ($1215.00)
> >	2) Connor 200Mb IDE 19ms w/cache           ($1050.00)
> >	3) Miniscribe 9380 380 Mb ESDI 14ms        ($1320.00)
> 
> I've got the 9380 running at home since last July with
> no problems.  I having really stressed it yet, but it 
> seems fast enough.  If you have detailed questions let 
> me know.  And yes, having 380Mb is real nice
> 

  I too have a 9380 that's been turning almost continuously for the past 
year.  No problems.   Actual formatted capacity is 318.


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