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From: mikel@Apple.COM (Mikel Evins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Anyone bought 200 or 300MB SCSI for less than $2000?
Message-ID: <51721@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 19 Apr 91 17:35:44 GMT
References: <1991Apr19.010531.427@menudo.uh.edu>
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In article <1991Apr19.010531.427@menudo.uh.edu> davison@menudo.uh.edu (Dan Davison) writes:
>A local vendor wants $1900 for a 200 MB *or* 380 MB drive (with power
>supply and enclosure).  The department's budget won't stretch that
>far, so I was wondering if anyone had recently bought a reasonable
>SCSI disk for about $1500 or so.

Here is a small and (more or less) random sampling of drives
larger than 300 MB for less than $2000, taken from the ad
pages of the MacWeek issue for 4/9/91:

Wren 337MB external $1199
Frog Systems Inc. (800) 654-FROG

Fujitsu 357MB internal $1298
Fujitsu 680MB internal $1698
Mac Direct 60 E. Chestnut 145
Chicago, IL 60611 (800) 621-8461

Wren 300MB internal $1199
Wren 600MB internal $1599
Relax technology
3101 Whipple Road
Union City, CA. 94587 (415) 471-6112

Wren 337MB external $1395
Wren 613MB external $1749
Wholesale 54
520 S. 52nd St. Ste. 204
Tempe, AZ 85281 (602) 350-1191

These are all SCSI drives. I don't know for certain
that any of them will work with the NeXT, but so far,
with 5 different kinds of SCSI drives I have managed
to get all of them to work with my cube. I also
have no relationship with any of the above
companies; not even as a customer.