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From: liemandt@lindy.Stanford.EDU (Joe Liemandt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MAX disk drives
Keywords: Fast & cheap
Message-ID: <943@lindy.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 29 Oct 88 00:42:21 GMT
References: <12700@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Reply-To: liemandt@lindy.Stanford.EDU (Joe Liemandt)
Organization: Stanford Data Center
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In article <12700@duke.cs.duke.edu> lsn@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Lars S. Nyland) writes:
>
>What's the deal with MAX disk drives?
>They are advertised (in MacWeek) as 80mb drives,
>12 ms seek time, and cost $977.
>30 day money back, 2 year warranty.
>
>Anybody got anything to say about them?

I have purchased 4 of them and couldn't be happier.  They are Quantum's
new 3.5 inch drives.  The mechanism operates at 19 ms but they have an
on-board 64K cache which they claim gives you about 12 ms.

I'm not quite sure if it is 12 ms, but they seem to be as fast or faster
than my 90meg CDC Wren drive, which I had previously thought the fastest
available.  And the price is great.

Hardware House has been prompt and courteous every time I've called.

Joe Liemandt
Stanford Univerity