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Subject: Re: Hard drive help
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Date: 19 Jun 91 23:55:45 GMT
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In article <1991Jun18.150722.11110@lut.ac.uk> N.D.Moss@lut.ac.uk (Jam Jar) writes:
:Organization : Loughborough University, UK.
:
:Hi,
:
:I've been trying for the last 3 weeks to buy a hard drive for my A3000. 
:Unfortunately, the company I chose to buy from simply can't get itself
:organised. Even more unfortunately, it is the only company selling 80Mb
:SCSI drives at a reasonable price (about 10 pounds above what most other
:companies offer for 40Mb drives). 
:
:So, being pretty desperate for an 80Mb drive, at less than 500 pounds,
:I have thought about buying a SCSI card, and hooking it up to a SCSI
:drive made for PC machines. Has anyone tried this approach? Is it
:guaranteed to work for any card/drive combination? What is the cheapest
:I could do this for?
SCSI drives aren't made for PC's; SCSI drives are just SCSI drives, but
you wouldn't think this from the price 'Acorn' compnies charge for
them.  Did you know you can get a fast 1Gb drive now for 2K?  I bought
my 330Mb drive a year ago for 800 quid.  I seriously recommend that
if you are up to it, buy a decent SCSI drive (in your price range, 200Mb)
and house it externally in a home made box.  The hardest part will be
making a SCSI cable if the drive has an IDC rather than a SCSI plug.

My estimate is that people selling drives for Archies are charging
100% *above* what would give them an acceptable profit.

Graham