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From: labc-3dc@e260-3f.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Hard drive speed
Summary: Here's the results
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Date: 16 Apr 89 04:12:59 GMT
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In article <sYFSoRy00Xoo4-gl52@andrew.cmu.edu> jm7e+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU ("Jeremy G. Mereness") writes:
> [I write:]
>> A recent issue of Call-A.P.P.L.E. had a hard drive comparison... among those
>> reviewed were two new Sider drives and the InnerDrive.
>> When it came to loading AppleWorks GS, the InnerDrive performed as well or
>> better than the other drives.  [blather]

From April 1989 Call-A.P.P.L.E. :
*****

Performance Results:
    Applied Ingenuity       FCP Sider               Intuition Systems
    Inner Drive 20 (68ms)   D9/C96 (18ms)           WARP Q84 (19ms)
    w/Driver  wo/Driver     w/Driver  wo/Driver     wo/Driver
1)  23:22     28:45         21:20     27:09         26:47
2)  1:22:15   3:04:40       1:39:31   3:19:43       2:35:07
3)  38:90     40:76         8:11      8:87          7:46

Where test 1 = GS/OS cold start to load
      test 2 = AppleWorks GS load
      test 3 = 100K seek/thrash (read blk $0, blk $989f, blk $1, blk $989e...)

*****

Clearly the Intuition Systems drive out-performs the other two without a
special GS/OS driver (important for ProDOS 8 applications).

What do these cost?
AI InnerDrive - $499 (20MB) / $650 (40MB)
FCP Sider D9 (87MB) - $1695
FCP Sider C96T (a D9 with a tape backup unit) - $2495
IS WARP Q84 (84MB) - $1299

DISCLAIMER: I don't work for anybody.  I own an InnerDrive, and I'm happy.

>jeremy mereness

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