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From: dcc@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (Daniel Carr)
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Subject: Re: Western Digital "Preference" Hard Drives !?
Message-ID: <1991Jun29.172147.21514@ncsu.edu>
Date: 29 Jun 91 17:21:47 GMT
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In article <1991Jun28.192749.3680@mmm.serc.3m.com> pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby) writes:
>In article <1991Jun28.011806.14478@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> stevel@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Steve Ligett) writes:
>>I need a bunch of cheap hard drives for some Mac Pluses.  I recently
>>saw an ad (well, I believe that I did!), for new Western Digital 20 MB
>>Preference (brand) external hard drives for $199.  However, I've been
>>unable to find the ad again.  Did anyone else see it, who remembers
>>where it was?
>
>I believe Damark, located here in the Twin Cities area, recently had the
>Preference drives in their catalog.  Sorry, I don't know their number
>off the top of my head.  However, I seem to fuzzily recall the price
>being a little bit higher than $199.
>
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here in NC there's a "wholesale" warehouse type store called sam's.
this is the type of store where you can buy institutional sized
products, like a vat of skippy peanut butter, etc.  anyhow, they sell a
WD Preference drive for $250.  it's 40mb.  i was going to get it but
read about it rating poorly in macuser april 91 because of speed.  however,
i would think that for a mac plus, speed would not be that big an issue,
since the scsi port is slower that mac IIs and SE/30s.


daniel

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