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From: Xorg@cup.portal.com (Peter Ted Szymonik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Advice Sought
Message-ID: <16740@cup.portal.com>
Date: 6 Apr 89 03:26:07 GMT
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Hi Andy, first off, if plan any future expansion then get a case that
can handle two drives - the ICD FaST case is very nice and will fit
two 3.5 HD mechs.  A 40Mb, 28 ms drive from an established company
will be hard to find but I believe that ICD offers 50meg with room
for another drive.  I just finished putting together a 100meg drive
in an ICD case.  I used two Seagate 157N's (48megs and 28 ms each) and
they fly at 550Kps and 35-40ms based on ICD's HD Rate program.  Putting
it all together required a screwdriver and about half an hour with
ICD's case because *everthing* you need is included except the mech
itself.  SUpra makes a 40 meg that fits under the hood of the Mega but
I wouldn't go that route because it adds heat to the computer and the
vibrations can be bad for the motherboard.  Also, if the HD goes down
the computer goes with it and vice versa.

Peter Szymonik