dan@ivucsb.UUCP (Dan Howell) (03/05/89)
Forgive me for not paying attention, but I would like to find out what people think are the best deals for hard drives for the A1000. I would like to know about your best recommendations with respect to capacity, price, and reliability. In your opinion, which drive offers the best price/capacity ratio? What would be the optimum storage capacity to get? Please send e-mail to the address in the reply-to field or my signature so as to avoid a flame war on the net. (Also because I easily get behind in news-reading). Thanks. -- Dan Howell <ivucsb!dan@anise.acc.com> -- <...!(pyramid|ucbvax)!ucsbcsl!nessus!ivucsb!dan> -- * I think this is it! My address should be relatively permanent now. *
andrews@cos.com (Andrew R. Scholnick) (03/07/89)
In article <561@ivucsb.UUCP>, dan@ivucsb.UUCP (Dan Howell) writes: > Forgive me for not paying attention, but I would like to find out what > people think are the best deals for hard drives for the A1000. I would > like to know about your best recommendations with respect to capacity, > price, and reliability. In your opinion, which drive offers the best > price/capacity ratio? My best recommendations are both C-Ltd. drives. The best price/capacity is the Konika 5.25in 10MB removable FLOPPY (ultra high density) drive. It is useful as a backup device and as a 10MB disk drive (I don't know if they can support autoboot). The floppys are $10-12 each (depending on where you purchase them) and the drive is in the $600-700 range. This gives you a (worst case) price of $820 for 100MB of storage (or $1060 for 300MB, $1900 for 1,000MB!!!). Also, I recommend the 33MB drive (I forget what I paid for it). It is a fast, reliable unit, one of which I have been using for over 2 years. > What would be the optimum storage capacity to get? What will you be using the drive for? Graphics/animation - 50MB or more is a good starting amt. Business (small) - 30MB or more is a good starting amt. Business (large) - 50MB or more is a good starting amt. Hobby/Home Stuff - 20MB or more is a good starting amt. (### Please no flames - these are my opinions & not carved-in-stone rules###) - Andrew R. Scholnick @ Corporation for Open Systems, McLean, VA - - andrews@cos.com or {uunet, sundc, decuac, hqda-ai, hadron}!cos!andrews - Everything I write blame on me, NOT my employer (unless I say so). "Adventure is when you toss your life on the scales of chance and wait for the pointer to stop." - Murray Leinster (First Contact)