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From: mjm@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Michael Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: hard drive advice
Keywords: help
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Date: 7 Oct 88 09:24:36 GMT
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I've been trying to follow threads of discussions about what kind of hard
drives/controllers to get for a 1000, but i still have incomplete
information at best.  Would some of you with experience mind e-mailing me
your opinions/recommendations/warnings?  I really would like to get a hard
drive system soon, and am unsure about the best way to go about it within a
$900 budget (this basically rules out getting an expansion chassis with
slots that would accomodate B2000 Bridgecards and other cool stuff, which
would be about $900 to begin with).  I understand from what i've gathered so
far that autobooting under 1.3 is impossible given my above restriction, as
is true DMA, but i must compromise.  I would still like to hear a bit about
those, though.  I basically would like about 50-65MB (ST157N?), and access
time of at most 40ms.  Prices and availability would be greatly appreciated,
too.  Thanks...

-Michael