Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!udel!haven.umd.edu!mimsy!dftsrv!heawk1!hoepfner From: hoepfner@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov (Patrick Hoepfner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: POWERDrive & Hard Drives International Message-ID: Date: 11 May 91 06:38:33 GMT References: <3156@sparko.gwu.edu> Sender: news@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Lines: 24 barvian@ece.cmu.edu (Scott Barvian) writes: >waire@seas.gwu.edu (Timothy A. Waire Jr.) writes: > I am looking to order a couple of external Quantum 105MB hard drives and was > looking at Hard Drives International's POWERDRive. > My question to the net is whether or not they are a reputable and reliable > dealer. Their price of $399 is really low compared to all > the other prices I have seen. >Quantum is apparently having a "fire sale" on 105MB drives. All the >drive shops are offering it for about that price. I don't know what >this implies about the 105MB drive (why is Quantum unloading them?). I understand that Quantum is discontinuing their 80MB drives and that they were selling the 105s at the old 80 prices. I was told this from a 3rd party drive distributer which bought the Quantum drives and packages them. +--------------------------+---------------------------------------+ / Patrick Hoepfner | NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center \ / America Online: PatrickH9 | Internet: hoepfner@heasfs.gsfc.nasa.gov \ +-----------------------------+------------------------------------------+