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From: ajq@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Everex harddrive for Mac
Message-ID: <1514@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 18 Jan 89 18:23:12 GMT
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Reply-To: ajq@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley)
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In article <4744@bnrmtv.UUCP> west@bnrmtv.UUCP (andrew west) writes:
>Has anybody had any experience (that they would like to share)
>with Everex harddrives for the Mac (I am looking at an 
>80 Meg version).  Any problems?  Pros and cons of the software
>included with the drive?
>Andrew West     {ames, amdahl, hplabs} ...!bnrmtv!west

I've had some experience ... I own an Everex EMAC-20D that I use with
my Mac Plus.

The only thing I don't like about it is its noise.  The fan reminds me of
a jet engine.  Anyone else have one like this?  I've wondered if it's just
my particular unit or if all of Everex's 20 megs drives are that noisy.

We've got two of the older generation (long, shoebox-shaped) 90 meg Everex
drives at work in use as file server hard disks.  Not so noisy, and fast.
They have been on 24 hours/day for months and we haven't had problems.  One
had to be sent back when it was new because it squeaked, though.

Apparently Everex just redesigned some (or all?) of their drives.  We bought
two new 80 meg drives, and they're only about the size of an external floppy.
Very quiet and very fast.  No problems so far.

The software that comes with it is relatively worthless ... I just use the
standard Apple hard disk software.


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