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From: andrews@cos.com (Andrew R. Scholnick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hard drives for A1000
Summary: How about CLtd.
Message-ID: <15861@cos.com>
Date: 7 Mar 89 13:23:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: cos.15861
References: <561@ivucsb.UUCP>
Organization: Corporation for Open Systems, McLean, VA
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In article <561@ivucsb.UUCP>, dan@ivucsb.UUCP (Dan Howell) writes:
> Forgive me for not paying attention, but I would like to find out what
> people think are the best deals for hard drives for the A1000.  I would
> like to know about your best recommendations with respect to capacity,
> price, and reliability.  In your opinion, which drive offers the best
> price/capacity ratio?  

My best recommendations are both C-Ltd. drives.  The best price/capacity is
the Konika 5.25in 10MB removable FLOPPY (ultra high density) drive.  It is 
useful as a backup device and as a 10MB disk drive (I don't know if they
can support autoboot).  The floppys are $10-12 each (depending on where you
purchase them) and the drive is in the $600-700 range.  This gives you a
(worst case) price of $820 for 100MB of storage (or $1060 for 300MB, $1900
for 1,000MB!!!).  Also, I recommend the 33MB drive (I forget what I paid for
it).  It is a fast, reliable unit, one of which I have been using for over
 2 years.

> What would be the optimum storage capacity to get?

What will you be using the drive for?
	Graphics/animation	-	50MB or more is a good starting amt.
	Business (small)	-	30MB or more is a good starting amt.
	Business (large)	-	50MB or more is a good starting amt.
	Hobby/Home Stuff	-	20MB or more is a good starting amt.
(### Please no flames - these are my opinions & not carved-in-stone rules###)

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