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From: jcocon@hubcap.clemson.edu (James C O'Connor III, 2846)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re:Hard Drives
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Date: 28 Feb 89 19:18:48 GMT
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Someone who was asking for recommendations on HD's, but I couldn't get mail to:

I just bought a Quantum 40 from Optimal.  Two of my friends have had them
for 10 months and 5 months.  Think about Micro Tech - same drive, 5 year
warranty instead of just 2.  Optimal has a much better mounting bracket than
the same drive from Hardware House.  The drive is QUICK!  Actually it is a 
19ms mechanism with hardware caching yeilding 12ms.  It has 50,000 hours MTTF.
It has head parking on power off, 60G non-operational rating.  I am happy (proud
owner for 5 days now) and so are my two friends.  I don't know if the extra 5 meg would be more important than the speed (refering to Rodime 45 now).  The i
internal arrangement seems to work well - I left the expansion plate punch out
open on my SE case to increase air flow, but I have a Whooping Accerlator card
too.
	Jim O'Connor

Disk Claimer:  I don't work for any of the companies named above, nor sell
		their products.  Just a happy mac-er.