jeff@drexel.UUCP (Jeff White) (01/05/89)
I recently got a MacMarketer direct marketing magazine, which is basically just a collection of advertisements and post cards for various Mac peripherals. One of the cards was for a company called Ehman Engineering, who were advertising a 30 Mbyte external SCSI drive for $499. The ad says, FAST! 12-19 ms RELIABLE! Seagate mechanism QUIET! Fanless cooling system EASY! Preformatted, ready to use PORTABLE! Small and lightweight LOADED! Over 10 Mb of PD software They have a picture of the drive, and it looks pretty nice. It is a vertical unit, with height:width about 2:1 (no actual measurements given). It has cooling slots at the top and bottom, and also seem to have two slanted LEDS on the front face (power and activity?). I called them up (they are based in Clearwater, FL, and have an 800 phone #),and got a secretary who said she would send me out some literature. I'm not expecting a jackpot here (I don't belive the 12-19 ms claim, most drives are fanless, and the PD software is usually crap anyway), but it looks nice (exterior wise), and for $500, a 30 Meg SCSI ain't bad. I'm just wondering if anyone had heard of the company, dealt with them, or maybe has seen a drive similar in description to this one? They also advertise as accepting Visa, MasterCard, and American Express, which reduces my fears of them being a fly by night company. Any help or suggetsions would be appreciated. Jeff White Drexel University - ECE Dept. rutgers!bpa!drexel!jeff
englandr@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Scott Englander) (01/05/89)
Don't know about their hard drives, but i once bought a floppy (800k)
drive, and it had a problem that trashed a good portion of my library.
I went through 3 of them before demanding that the mail order company
that i bought it from (Programs Plus) replace it with another make,
which they did. Anyway, if you _really_ want to give them a chance,
dealers will have better prices than buying direct.
--
- Scottkwan@cad.ics.uci.edu (Andrew Kwan) (01/06/89)
Ehman Engineering has made external 800K drives for a few years. I bought one about a year and a half ago. I had problems with the first one, so I returned it, received a new drive a couple of weeks later, and haven't had any problems since. I would buy from them again - their service and product were good.