Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!enea!tut!santra!jmunkki
From: jmunkki@santra.UUCP (Juri Munkki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hard disks
Message-ID: <11173@santra.UUCP>
Date: 16 Mar 88 11:52:00 GMT
References: <2144@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: jmunkki@santra.UUCP (Juri Munkki)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Lines: 18
Keywords: CMS

In article <2144@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> joel@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (joel s. kollin) writes:
>Can anyone out tell me something about CMS hard disks?  I saw an
>ad today for a 60 Meg external for $795 from Hardware House.
>This is much better than anyone else, so I'm wondering what the
>catch is.  Are they slow or noisy or something?

There's no catch (I think). The CMS 60 MB drive is actually a Seagate ST277N.
The local Seagate representative told me that Seagate in currently making this
model in much larger quantities than the smaller models. Mass production has
brought the prices down and the 277 is now almost as cheap as the ST225N (20MB
drive). The ST277N is not really slow, but it's not fast either (40 ms). The
CMS formatting software looks very good.

Juri Munkki
jmunkki@santra.hut.fi
jmunkki@fingate.bitnet

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