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From: kanefsky@cs.umn.edu (Steve Kanefsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: hard drives
Message-ID: <1990Mar14.212150.16916@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 90 21:21:50 GMT
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Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis - CSCI Dept.
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In article <14674.25FD9F52@stjhmc.fidonet.org> Leo.Bores@f14.n114.z1.fidonet.org (Leo Bores) writes:
>In an article of <12 Mar 90 05:19:57 GMT>, stas@sun.acs.udel.edu (Stanislaus 
>Pietrucha) writes:
>
> SP>I own a Mac Plus, and I would like to buy a hard drive.  This may sound
> SP>
> SP>Should I be concerned with access time, or price?
> SP>In this light, what is the most practical hard drive, reasonable price,
> SP>and reasonably fast, as well as dependable?
>
>
>My reccomendation would be for an external Quantum 80.

At current street prices, a Quantum 105 is a much better deal than a 
Quantum 80. A good price for an external Quantum 80 is $659 (APS, 
1-800-233-7550), which comes to about $8.24/MB, whereas the price
for an external Quantum 105 at the same place is $729, or $6.94/MB.
Both these drives have similar mechanisms, access times, etc.


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Steve Kanefsky             
kanefsky@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu