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From: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Advice needed on large SCSI disks
Message-ID: <1412@ccnysci.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 89 16:50:10 GMT
References: <171@radar.UUCP>
Reply-To: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Organization: City College of New York
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In article <171@radar.UUCP> donn@radar.UUCP (Donn S. Fishbein) writes:
>I'm looking to purchase a large (~300M) hard disk in the near future.
>So far the best deal I've been able to find is from Hard Drives International,
>who offer a 330Mb Miniscribe drive (external) for $2075. Does anyone know
>of any better deals anywhere? 

Yes! The miniscribe is not bad, but for a few hundred more you can get
a drive with MUCH better performance, the Wren Runner. For now, MicroNet
has an exclusive on this, and their prices are excellent (more companies
will be distributing it in a few months).

This unit has a REAL (not cached) access time of 10.7 ms, and a real
transfer rate much higher than other Mac drives (even the other Wrens,
which have been the performance leaders so far). If you need a large
hard disk, you almost certainly need a fast one, and this is the fastest
drive you can buy.

Dealer price for the Runner is around $2600 external, $2300 internal.
Price/performance with this drive is phenomenal...

Alexis Rosen
alexis@ccnysci.uucp