Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!garnett From: garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: hard drive vs. RAM Message-ID: <1137@tokio.cs.utexas.edu> Date: 25 Feb 91 05:30:40 GMT References: <3674.27C89A26@blkcat.fidonet.org> Organization: University of Texas at Austin Lines: 19 In article <3674.27C89A26@blkcat.fidonet.org> Martha.Schaefer@f421.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Martha Schaefer) writes: > >I did get a hard drive this week, a 210 Mb Quantum from Alliance Peripheral >Systems (1-800-233-7550). It formatted to 199 Mb, JUST enough for the system >2.0 extended, and required nothing fancy to install. It is -much- faster than >the OD. The price was less than $850. > Hmmm... ~ $850 for 210MB works out to approximately $4 per megabyte. Has anyone seen any better prices for that size of drive? People have been quoting prices of ~ $1400 for a 710MB Fujitsu which works out to $2 per megabyte. 1.7 X the cost for 3.5 X the storage. I think I'd better save a little while longer :-). -- John Garnett University of Texas at Austin garnett@cs.utexas.edu Department of Computer Science Austin, Texas Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com