Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!portal!cup.portal.com!FelineGrace From: FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: A3000 hard drive capacity Message-ID: <42936@cup.portal.com> Date: 4 Jun 91 03:29:26 GMT References: Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 27 Recently Reid Bishop Posted: RB>In a message dated Thu 30 May 91 23:13, Darrell@comspec.uucp (darrell Grain RB>wrote: DG> How tall is this 1 gig 3.5" drive? I think the Amiga 3000 only has a DG> 1" DG> clearance for the hard drive. It might be a little more but not much. RB>Indeed, you can put _two_ 1" drives stacked on top of each other inside the RB>Amiga 3000's drive bay. (At least two Quantum Q105LPs.) The drive bay(s) RB>will hold a standard 1/2 height 3 1/2" drive, which typically run anywhere RB>from 1 1/2" to 2 1/2" tall. RB> Reid Bishop- Customer Support & Programming, M.V. Micro RB> UUCP: boulder!tcr!a68k!Reid_Bishop [Reid Bishop] RB> FIDO: (1:104/224) Now I could be wrong about this (Really! It's possible!), but I thought the 'standard' 3.5" drive was the same height as a half-height 5.25" one. And that the 'half-height' 3.5" drive is not always half the height of the half-height 5.25" ones one should be careful about making assumptions on how many devices can fit in the drive bays. Seagate calls them 'low profile' 3.5" drives. I have a catalog at work and can quote dimensions if anyone is interested. Dana Bourgeois @ cup.portal.com