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From: nesbbx!billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour)
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Subject: Re: A3000 hard drive capacity
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Date: 2 Jun 91 00:28:47 GMT
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In article <42674@cup.portal.com>, Dana B Bourgeois writes:

> At a rough guess I would say that about 350Meg is the limit for a 3.5"
> drive (right now anyway).  Definitely less than 500 Meg.  Micropolis
> is shipping the largest 5.25" drive right now, about 2.0 Gig.  I don't
> know what the capacities are in *"and larger drives.  I don't think 
> any of them are SCSI.  

	there are half a dozen or so manufacturers that are shipping at
least evaluation quantities of >500M 3.5 inch drives.  Most of them are
very fast, and most are inexpensive when looked at as a $/MByte cost...

> Dana Bourgeois @ cup.portal.com

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