Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!uunet!unhd.unh.edu!tjb From: tjb@unhd.unh.edu (Thomas J. Baker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Help: New 3.5" Drives Message-ID: <1991Jan31.191634.3745@unhd.unh.edu> Date: 31 Jan 91 19:16:34 GMT References: Organization: University of New Hampshire Lines: 32 In article ck32+@andrew.cmu.edu (Chris Wei-Tae Kim) writes: >Howdy, I heard that there are new high capacity 3.5" drives coming out >soon, at least I know that Fujisu have 510meg 3.5" drive but they >haven't start shipping yet. Does anyone know more details on this? When >would they have it on market and how much will it be? What are the other >alternatives. How about 400meg internal HD that comes with new stations? >It would be nice if I can have 300++meg inside the slab rather than an >external(external drives require SCSI-2 cables and they too expansive). >Thanks. > I called Alliance Peripheral Systems about I drive I saw announced in MacWeek a couple of months back. It is the Maxtor LXT-535, a 535Mb half-height 3 1/2 inch drive with an access time of 12 to 13 milliseconds. According to the article, it has an asyncronous data transfer rate of 3 MB/second and a syncronous rate of 5 MB/second. Maxtor is also making the LXT-437, a 437Mb drive with similiar stats. OEM prices are $1450 for the LXT-535 and $1250 for the LXT-437. I was sick of waiting for vaporware and had decided on a Wren V, but when they said "mid February" for the new Maxtors, I decided to wait. More info when I get it... tjb -- ____________________________________________________________________________ | INTERNET: tjb@mozz.unh.edu USPS: Thomas Baker | | USENET: uunet!unhd.unh.edu!tjb Distributed Computing | | NeXT: tjb@IceCube.unh.edu Kingsbury Hall, UNH |