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From: shankar@haarlem.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Son of Knuth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: SCSI Hard Drives
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Date: 27 Jan 89 21:17:26 GMT
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I was looking for SCSI hard drives for my GS, and I had a few questions,
being a newcomer to hard disks.

First, are all SCSI's created equally?  Essentially, will any SCSI drive
work with both the GS and Mac?  Will all utility programs (partitioning,
defragmentation, etc.) work with all SCSI drives, assuming they're used
with the Rev. C SCSI card?

Second, are there any good mail order (or not) places for getting SCSI 
drives and/or cards?  I'm currently looking at 45M Rodimes for $850 or
40M Everex's for $800 - is this a good price (both need another $120 for
the card).

Finally, does access time mean anything on the GS, or is the computer too
slow to keep up with the drive anyway?  How about on a Mac?  I understand
that SCSI cards have their own buffers for data read from the disk, so
access times *do mean something, but my source isn't particularly 
reliable.

Thanks for any help.
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Subash Shankar            Honeywell Systems & Research Center
voice: (612) 782 7558     US Snail: 3660 Technology Dr., Minneapolis, MN 55418
Internet: shankar@src.honeywell.com