[comp.sys.mac] Jasmine, Rabbit and/or Softworks Hard Disks

mazur@endor.harvard.edu (Eric Mazur) (01/14/87)

I'm looking into larger (i.e. > 20 MB) hard disks and it seems that there
are some quite interesting differences in prices. I quote from the January
MacWorld:

	Sunol Systems	SunStreak SCSI-70	$3795	for 70  MB
	Rabbit Ind.	Magic235		$3399	for 235 MB

That seems like quite a different $/MB ratio. Anyway, I'm not looking for
235 MB drives in the $3k price range. These are three disks that look
interesting to me from the point of view of $/MB ratio:

	Jasmine Comp.	Direct Drive 80		$1380	for 80 MB
	Rabbit Ind.	Magic65			$1399	for 65 MB
	Softworks, Ltd.	SD-60			$1495	for 60 MB

Note that the price goes up as capacity goes down!!? I'd appreciate mail from
people who are familiar with hard disks from these three companies (not
necessarily these particular models). Why are the prices so different?
Is there (apart from some cosmetics) a basic difference between higher and
lower prices disks? How about reliability?

Eric Mazur


Eric Mazur

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