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From: mkao@pnet01.cts.COM (Mike Kao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Hard Drive info needed
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Date: 10 Jan 88 10:27:09 GMT
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I bought a CMS-60 meg drive at AppleFest '87 for only $945! It was and still
is an EXCELLENT deal. It is pretty quiet and there is no problem in powering
on. The only problem arises when disk utilities check what volumes are online,
and your drive happens to be off. In that case, your system will just hang
or get an IO error, since the peripheral is recognized but not connected. This
is really not much of a problem since all you have to do is turn on the drive
and restart your program. The only improvement I can think of for this  drive
is that the access time could be faster. I'm not sure what the msecs are
exactly, but I know the CMS 20
and 40 have faster access times. Overall, though, the 60 is a better deal.

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                                                                  -- Mike Kao

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