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From: mscritsm@isis.cs.du.edu (Milton Scritsmier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3000 hard drive capacity
Message-ID: <1991May31.030402.14442@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
Date: 31 May 91 03:04:02 GMT
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In article <1991May29.133329.1240@comspec.uucp> darrell@comspec.uucp (Darrell Grainger) writes:
>In article <1991May29.042901.27634@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mscritsm@isis.UUCP (Milton Scritsmier) writes:
>>Actually, you can expect several 1 gig 3.5 inch drives to be announced by
>>the end of this year.  In fact, last week Micropolis announced a 1.2 gig
>>3.5 inch drive which supposedly will be sampling in the next quarter.
>>Others are supposed to be from Conners and Maxtor.  In addition, they also
>>transfer data much faster from the media, spinning at 4500 rpm or more.
>
>How tall is this 1 gig 3.5" drive? I think the Amiga 3000 only has a 1"
>clearance for the hard drive. It might be a little more but not much.

I haven't seen any pics or read any descriptions of the dimensions.  Just
guessing, I would assume that they achieve that capacity in part by having
a lot of platters (say 6 to 8 or so) which means that the drive certainly
would not be a half height.  Almost certainly it will be more than an inch.