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From: nathan@jacobi.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
Subject: Re: Hard Disks and Optical Disks
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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1991 17:47:13 GMT
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In article <1991Jun21.170759.27997@cs.yale.edu> sanders-malcolm@CS.YALE.EDU  
(Malcolm Sanders) writes:
> In article <1991Jun20.181149.17058@bellcore.bellcore.com>  
kph@blackhole.bae.bellcore.com (Keith P. Hawkins) writes:
> 
> 
> 
>    I have an 040 Cube running 2.0 with just the swapdisk and the 
>    optical drive. I am now running out of free space on my optical. 
>    I am thinking about getting a harddisk for the machine.  I am tempted 
>    to buy the 330 Mb advertised in BusinessLands last fire sale, but 330MB 
>    doesn't sound like a lot of space if ~200 MB is needed just
>    to hold the system software.

> 
> My understanding is that the 330 Mb disk drive is the largest that
> can coexist with the optical disk inside the cube.  If you want a 
> larger hard disk, you will have to hang it (or the optical disk 
> drive) off the SCSI port.
> 

NeXT offers the 400Mb half-height disk as the replacement for the 330Mb
half-height units that used to come with older cubes.  Either way, there
is one full-height of space left in cubes with the OD drive.  So, as long
as you pull the 40Mb swapdisk, you could install a 660Mb full-height disk.

-- 
Nathan Janette
nathan@jacobi.biology.yale.edu