baxter@uab.UUCP (07/25/86)
What experience have you had with SCSI hard disks for the Mac +? Does anyone have any information about when Apple will release an SCSI drive? Jerrel Baxter University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Optometry Birmingham, AL 35294 205/934-2822
joel@gould9.UUCP (Joel West) (08/06/86)
In article <6@uab.CSNET>, baxter@uab.UUCP writes: > What experience have you had with SCSI hard disks for the Mac +? Does > anyone have any information about when Apple will release an SCSI drive? On Friday 8/1 I bought a Plus-30 hard disk from Peak Systems. If I understand it correctly, it's a Micropolis spindle, in a box about the size of an HD-20. The Peak people say they made a file server (Servant?) before they sold the rights to Reach Technology. Both are located in Austin, TX. The Plus-30 was one of 2 30mb disks advertised to developers in Outside Macintosh recently. It doesn't look too bad, it's a little deeper than the Mac (a problem on my desk), and was priced reasonably, but not cheaply (about $200 more than a DataFrame 20, developer prices). I've loaded up about 12mb, mostly applications, fonts, etc. I have MPW C and Pascal, Lightspeed C, MS-Basic, Write, Paint, ResEdit, etc. Not much point in putting TML or Megamax on, since they haven't sent me info yet (!) on their HFS-compatible versions. The disk is VERY fast, which I guess puts it in the same class as most SCSI drives, and not with the HD-20. (I can't speak for the Hyperdrive, as I've done no side-by-side benchmarks). It came pre-formatted and I booted off that system (3.2) & finder (5.3) and am using it today. It comes with some software, to park the heads and allow you to backup a file > 800kb onto floppies. Other than that, the software doesn't seem to have much value. They also sell a 45mb and 65mb. They automatically park the heads. And, they supposedly have a quieter fan. This fan is REAL noisy, as noisy as any IBM AT. I'm willing to accept that trade-off, though, because almost every 30mb hard disk I've seen is noisy, and if, in order to get a good deal, I have to settle for average noisiness, that's the breaks. SUMMARY: It works so far, and I'm almost to the point where I wonder how I got by without it. -- Joel West Western Software Technology, PO Box 2733, Vista, CA 92083 {cbosgd, ihnp4, pyramid, sdcsvax, ucla-cs} !gould9!joel joel%gould9.uucp@NOSC.ARPA
west@bnrmtv.UUCP (Andrew West) (08/12/86)
I am hoping to get some input (a general posting might be best since I am
sure that others may be interested) as to what external SCSI hard drives
Mac users may own and/or recommend. I am especially interested in
information regarding reliability, speed, software compatibility, noise
(either from the heads or from a fan, if it has one), price and company
support.
To start of the discussion, I have listed some of the ones I have been
looking at or have at least heard about are (with the lowest prices I have
seen to date) :
1) MD Ideas - HD 20 and HD 30 (fan, horizonatal design)
~$840 for 20 Meg, $1100 for 30 Meg
2) Lowdown 20 (no fan, horizontal design, gets pretty hot)
~$830
3) DataFrame 20 (no fan, vertical design)
~$830
4) ProAPP (horizonal design, fan?, SCSI, Mac512 or Apple II compatible)
~$800 for 10 Meg, $1000 for 20 Meg
5) AST-4000 (horizontal design, fan?, 74 Meg+, built in 60 Meg tape)
~$ ??? but high
6) Bernoulli Box (SCSI?? fan?)
~$ ???
7) Mirro Technologies MagNet20x (horizontal, included MacServe software)
~$ ???
8) Warp Nine Photon 20 (horizontal, fan?)
~$800
Thanks for any information or advice.
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-----------------------------------------------------------dlt@csun.UUCP (Dave Thompson) (08/14/86)
In article <624@bnrmtv.UUCP>, west@bnrmtv.UUCP (Andrew West) writes: > > I am hoping to get some input (a general posting might be best since I am > sure that others may be interested) as to what external SCSI hard drives See the September issue of MacWorld. I've only glanced at the article, but they do seem to attempt comparison of several SCSI drives for the Mac. -- Dave Thompson uucp: {ihnp4|hplabs|psivax}!csun!dlt CSUN Computer Center phone: (818) 885-2790 18111 Nordhoff Street Northridge, CA 91330