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From: hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Josh Hodas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MAX disk drives
Keywords: Fast & cheap
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Date: 29 Oct 88 04:20:25 GMT
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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?

Well I've had my MAX-80i in my II for a week (replaced a 40 meg) and it's been
great.  The drive itself is from Quantum's new line of 3 1/2" Hard Drives
which will replace the old 250/280   5 1/4" line (these are what apple has been
using for 40 and 8o meg for a while).

The actual acces time is something like 18 ms  but there is a cache on the
controller that gives an average access of 12ms over time supposedly.

The drive definitely screams.  

I am not sure why they (Hardware House) has been up till now one of the few
outfits offering the drive.  I expect it to start getting pretty popular soon.

Disclaimer:  I am friends with someone working (short term while they deal
with their sudden immense popularity) for Hardware House.

Josh Hodas

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