dalton@cheetah.ece.arizona.edu (Jeff Dalton) (06/08/91)
I am about to purchase a new NeXTstation and as being only a poor college I can onlt afford the low end model at this time (with plans on upgrading to a larger SCSI HD later (soon hopefully)). In any case I was wondering what kind of stats there were from the 105 meg and the 200 meg drives that are shipped with the NeXTstations. Access times for both? Are they reliable? Are they loud?? Is one clearly better then the other? Is the 200 meg option a better deal? Should I go that route or buy the 105 now and buy a big external SCSI drive later (prices seem to be falling fast on SCSI drives...). I cannot afford (at this time) the bigger drive option from NeXT and would like to get my station as soon as possible ... so I am curious as to the quality of the drives I am considering buying. Any info would be greatly appreciated. E-mail please. Thanks! :) -- Jeff Dalton - "Khelben Blackstaff" University of Arizona, Systems Programmer dalton@arizona.edu || dalton@ece.arizona.edu
dmr@csli.Stanford.EDU (Daniel M. Rosenberg) (06/09/91)
In <DALTON.91Jun8154506@cheetah.ece.arizona.edu> dalton@cheetah.ece.arizona.edu (Jeff Dalton) writes: >I am about to purchase a new NeXTstation and as being only a poor college I >can onlt afford the low end model at this time (with plans on upgrading to a >larger SCSI HD later (soon hopefully)). In any case I was wondering what >kind of stats there were from the 105 meg and the 200 meg drives that are >shipped with the NeXTstations. If you are a poor college student like I am, and can't afford a bigger drive, you may as well not worry about access time and whatnot. The smaller systems you mentioned don't come with an extended 2.1 release, so you get not much in the way of development tools unless you NFS mount them from somewhere else. Go by the price difference. (Statistics are also somewhat hard to come by as NeXT tends to switch around drive vendors.) You might get a 105Mb Slab and buy your own drive, but that will cost you about the same as a 400Mb Slab except you get 105Mb extra (at least). I am planning on posting a summary of third party drive options, just as soon as my Slab arrives... and I graduate. -- # Daniel M. Rosenberg Stanford Univ CSLI Opinions here are my own # dmr@csli.stanford.edu {apple,ucbvax}!labrea!csli!dmr BIT:dmr%csli@stanford