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From: ray@ole.UUCP (Ray Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Conner 500meg IDE $800-- Rumor or Fact??
Message-ID: <1814@ole.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 91 22:39:20 GMT
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Organization: Seattle Silicon Corp., Bellevue, WA.
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goat@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Glendower, goat of goats) writes:

>...I keep hearing about how Connor Peripherals will unleash a (roughly) 500
>megabyte IDE drive (3 1/2 inch?) for the same price as their comparable
>200 megabyte drive... around 800 dollars. That's only $1.60 per meg!!!!!

	This drive was announced at Comdex.  It does not yet seem to have made
its way into distribution.  (It may not be shipping yet.)  The price Conner
quoted was $1295 quantity one.  I don't know how this translates to mail-order
street pricing.  Can anybody else speak authoritatively to this?

	If I recall correctly the Conner was spec'ed at 12 msec average access
time and has a 256K internal buffer (IDE at least) with smarter management
algorithms than the current models.  Sounds like a winner.

	BTW, Conner doesn't have an exclusive here (although their pricing is
more aggresive than some others).  HP, Rodime, Quantum, Fujitsu, etc., have an-
nounced similar drives.  See the current issue (4 Feb 91) of EDN ( a trade
mag for EEs) for a quick overview of these new drives.
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Ray Berry  kb7ht  uucp: ...sumax!ole!ray CIS: 73407,3152 /* "inquire within" */