unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) (12/06/89)
A while ago I posted a few hard drive prices and said hard drives
could be found even cheaper than that. Well, I found some more of them,
and decided to post a few more.. This'll probably be the last batch I
post as there might not be very many people interested in this... I'm just
trying to educate people on how cheaply hard drives can be gotten..
$600 for a 40 meg drive is NOT a 'totally awesome deal' as some people
might think.
I most likely will not even buy a hard drive but will either
buy a CMS 45 megabyte removable cartridge drive or one of the Insite
Peripherals 20 megabyte floptical drives... A post with more info on
the latter by me was posted a few minutes ago so you should receive it
somewhere around the same time as you get this one.
These are from the Sunday December 3, 1989 Computing Section of
the San Jose Mercury News..
They're in an ad for Storage System Engineering at
3350 Scott Blvd, Bldg 19 Ste. 1902 Santa Clara (408) 727 6040
The wonderful prices are the following: 120 MB $750,
160 MB $850... These are ESDI drives but ESDI --> SCSI converters
can easily be gotten. My housemate, who has a 150 megabyte drive on his
Amiga, did it that way (got an ESDI drive, got the converter)
then what comes out of the hard drive box IS SCSI. The converter is some
sort of a card that goes in the hard drive case with the drive.. It costs
somewhere between $100-$150.
Then you add a SCSI card which I've been told can be gotten for
about $100.. So lets add that up for a 120 meg drive.. It'll be
-about- $1000 total, much less than the price I remember ($1200???) for
a 100 meg Vulcan.. And that will never work on any computer but an Apple..
{OK, -without extensive modification-}
Hope you all learned something in Making Your Own Cheap Huge
Hard Drives 101. Class is over for today. [Just a joke, Paul, just
a joke] If anyone needs more info on something feel free to mail me.
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unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu