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From: jesup@pawl13.pawl.rpi.edu (Randell E. Jesup)
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Subject: Re: Cheap Hard Disks for A2000.
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Date: 21 Apr 88 05:54:49 GMT
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In article <50186@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>As for prices, the price of an imbedded SCSI drive is currently about
>$11 to $12 per Megabyte for fast drives (< 30 Msec). Less for slower
>drives (>= 40 Msec). So for a 50 meg drive you can expect to be charged
>somewhere between 500 and 600 dollars depending on how fast it is.
>Note that if you buy Seagate drives they have a slow and a fast version
>(usually indicated by -0 (slow) or -1 (fast) after the model number)

	Watch out, however: whether the drive is slow or fast (and this only
applies to some of the models, such as the ST157) isn't normally advertised,
and in fact the seller might not even know of the difference (it's apparently
tough to find out without digging what the -0 and -1 mean).

	It's been noted that the 48Meg SCSI ST157N goes for ~$450-$475.  That
might only be the 40ms version, or might not be.  There's also the ST277N,
40ms, 65meg, which sells for ~$550-600.

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