durham@cme.nbs.gov (James H. Durham) (07/14/89)
I recently found an advertisement for UniMAC hard drives for unbelievable
prices. I can't remeber exactly, but the prices were something like
$379 for a 20 meg drive, $429 for a 30 megger, and $499 for 45 megs!
Now, I called Hard Drives International up and they use Seagate and
Miniscribe drives in all of these, PLUS, it comes housed in a zero-footprint
case that matches the color of your mac, unlike the ugly IBM-style
Ehman drives. This seemingly great deal comes with a 30-day money-back
arrangement and a 1-year warrantee!
Normally I would be overly suspicious of this offering, but I have puchased
many hard drives from this company for regular PC's and it's a good
company, completely trustworthy. Note that these drives ARE EXTERNAL and
ZERO FOOTPRINT, with GREAT SUPPORT. Can't anyone, ANYONE out there in the
"ether" tell me one good reason NOT to buy one of these drives?
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_________________ the sole reflections of this lone programmer.Adam.Frix@f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) (07/14/89)
>....come in a zero footprint case that nicely matches the color of your >Mac case, unlike the ugly IBM PC case of the Ehman drives. The Ehman drives are now in equally nice cases, at least according to the pictures in their latest ads; no more PC-XT under your Mac. I agree. Those old cases were enough to turn me away, too. --Adam-- -- Adam Frix via cmhGate - Net 226 fido<=>uucp gateway Col, OH UUCP: ...!osu-cis!n8emr!cmhgate!200!Adam.Frix INET: Adam.Frix@f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG
gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (07/17/89)
I don't think those prices are totally amazing. Check this month's
edition of MacUser. There are some incredible buys on Seagate-based
macintosh hard drives (like $499 for a 60 or 80Mb 5" internal drives).
Now that the IIcx has be introduced, I would expect a firesale on 5"
internal drives. I can't imagine why anyone would be buying IIx's or
II's right now.
Remember: Seagate stuff works, but is not known as being of the
highest quality, especially for high-density drives.
Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801
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