root@radar.UUCP (Donn S. Fishbein) (03/12/89)
I'm looking to purchase a large (~300M) hard disk in the near future. So far the best deal I've been able to find is from Hard Drives International, who offer a 330Mb Miniscribe drive (external) for $2075. Does anyone know of any better deals anywhere?
alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) (03/15/89)
In article <171@radar.UUCP> donn@radar.UUCP (Donn S. Fishbein) writes: >I'm looking to purchase a large (~300M) hard disk in the near future. >So far the best deal I've been able to find is from Hard Drives International, >who offer a 330Mb Miniscribe drive (external) for $2075. Does anyone know >of any better deals anywhere? Yes! The miniscribe is not bad, but for a few hundred more you can get a drive with MUCH better performance, the Wren Runner. For now, MicroNet has an exclusive on this, and their prices are excellent (more companies will be distributing it in a few months). This unit has a REAL (not cached) access time of 10.7 ms, and a real transfer rate much higher than other Mac drives (even the other Wrens, which have been the performance leaders so far). If you need a large hard disk, you almost certainly need a fast one, and this is the fastest drive you can buy. Dealer price for the Runner is around $2600 external, $2300 internal. Price/performance with this drive is phenomenal... Alexis Rosen alexis@ccnysci.uucp