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From: vakselro@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Vadim Akselrod)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 40-ish MB HD recommendations??
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Date: 20 Apr 89 22:03:11 GMT
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In article <23298@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> lauac@qal.qal.berkeley.edu (Alexander Lau) writes:
>In article <18392@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> pv9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Adam Engst) writes:
>>Has anyone heard anything about the Ehman hard drives?  A friend is interested
>>in getting on and they quote him a price of $579 for a 65 meg drive, which is
>>pretty good.
>>
>>Thanks ...
>>
>>Adam
>
>I haven't gotten around to writing my standard, anti-Ehman diatribe, so
>I'll post this time:
>
>Ehman gives good prices.  You get what you pay for.  They use the
>low-end Seagate stuff, that's unreliable and slow.  Ehman drives are
>good for second base.  (Someone I know says they're good for doorstops,
>but I'm more of a baseball fan than he.)  
>
>--- Alex
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I have experience with Ehman for a little over 6 months now, and I recommend
the company's hard drives to anyone looking for one.  Four of the people I
have made the recommendations to have purchased the drives, and all are
satisfied!  

There are a couple of things to know, however:
-Go for the big (65 meg and up) drives.  The little ones aren't quite up to
 par on the price/meg ratio, and are MUCH slower.  But the bigger drives I
 have clocked at up to (down to?) 17ms optimized.  I have found that
 performance often varies drive to drive, but they have been willing to
 exhange the drives without any difficuties.  The support staff at Ehman is
 very friendly and helpful.
-These are Mac-only drives ---  BEWARE!  Not quite standard SCSI (almost)
-It might help with speed to back up all the shareware that comes with the
 drive when you get it and reformat the sucker.  And some non-Ehman 
 formatting programs seem to work better in my opinion.

My advice: give it a try.  You have very little to lose.  If you don't like
it, send it back in 30 days, no ?s asked.  And it does come with a 2-year
warrantee, but I haven't had the drive long enough to see how it performs
after the warrantee runs out.

-Josh Akselrod
Josh@pcmath
Josh@pcmath.claremont.edu

*(- These are MY opinions only, but I'm willing to trade... -)*