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From: erics@dartvax.UUCP (Eric Schlegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: hard disk info
Message-ID: <7344@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 22:08:54 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  9 22:08:54 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 12-Oct-87 03:09:12 EDT
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Reply-To: erics@dartvax.UUCP (Eric Schlegel)
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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In article <57900004@sfu_cmpt> mcdonald@sfu_cmpt.cs.sfu writes:
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>It is hard drive time around my house, and having put some time into looking
>for inexpensive quality, I thought people might be interested in my
>experiences ...[Deleted]... I narrowed the field down to the drives
>offered by three companies--CMS, Jasmine, and Warp Nine Engineering...
>...
>[Much deleted]
>...
>Ken McDonald
>{ubc-vision!sfu-cmpt!mcdonald}
>
>Disclaimer:  I have no connection with any of the above companies, not even
>             as a satisfied customer, yet--but I'm hopin'!

I've had a Jasmine 80 running with my Plus for about 3 months now, and I've
been very happy with it. It's very fast and I've had no crashes or other
problems whatsoever. I've only dealt with Jasmine tech support once, but that
time I was satisfied with the support. I had originally ordered a Jasmine 50,
but was sent an 80 instead (for the same price of about $1200!). I called to
see if there were any differences between the drives that I should watch out
for, and the tech support said no, that both drives were Quantum drives, with
the only difference being that the 80 had one more platter than the 50. They
also said that Quantum had mislabeled some 80-meg drives as 50's, and that that
was how the mixup occurred. At any rate, the tech support seemed to know what
they were talking about, and I would firmly recommend the Jasmine drive.

Eric

Disclaimer: Obviously, I do have the connection to Jasmine of being a satisfied
customer.

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Eric Schlegel
erics@u2.dartmouth.edu
erics@dartvax