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From: ralph@cbnewsj.att.com (Ralph Brandi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Cheap hard drives
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.153920.15074@cbnewsj.att.com>
Date: 21 Mar 91 15:39:20 GMT
References: <1991Mar20.223528.8152@ee.rochester.edu>
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In article <1991Mar20.223528.8152@ee.rochester.edu> rajiv@ee.rochester.edu (Rajiv Arora) writes:

>In case you hadn't noticed, the prices of hard drives seem to have fallen a
>bit, judging by the prices in the last MacUser. I bought a 105M external drive
>from Hard Drives International (the brand is PowerDrive) for $399! I've had it
>now for a couple of weeks and it works just fine. The mechanism is a Quantum
>P105S, and the unit comes with a 30-day MBG and a 2-year warranty.

>reason for the ultra-low price (their 80M Quantum sells for $419--go figure!)
>is inventory reduction.

I took advantage of the general drop in price on Quantum 105s as
well.  I got mine from Relax Technologies out in California.  Got
the drive a few days ago.  I was expecting to get one of the P105Ss,
since that seems to be what Quantum is having their fire sale on.
So I was surprised to find out that the drive inside my box is
actually one of the new LPS105s.  If I'm not mistaken, this is one
of the new 1/3 height drives, right?  I can't imagine that there
would be a reason for me to be upset about this, but is there?  What,
other than height, is the difference between the LPS105 and the
P105S?  Access time?  MTBF?  
-- 
Ralph Brandi     ralph@mtunq.att.com     att!mtunq!ralph

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