[comp.sys.mac.hardware] 210M Quantum Internal for ci from APS/HDI/MacTel/FWB/others.

schiebel@cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (Darrell Schiebel) (01/07/91)

I am planning on purchasing an internal hard drive around 200Meg.  I've 
been led to believe, through advertisements, that a Quantum 210Meg internal
hard drive will fit into a IIci ... is this true?

Many companies advertise a 210Meg Quantum,
	MacTel				Alliance Peripheral Systems
	Hard Drives International	Third Wave Computing
	ClubMac				FWB Inc.
I'm somewhat hesitant about ordering from mail order companies for fear
of losing large sums of money.  Has anyone had any experience with these
companies, or "medium large" disk drives from these or other companies?

Also, I need the drive/partitioning sw/controller to be compatible with 
A/UX 2.0.

					Any help would be greatly appreciated.

					Thanks,
					Darrell Schiebel
					(schiebel@a.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu)
					(drs@baks.bell-atl.com)

cheshire@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Stuart David Cheshire) (01/08/91)

In article <1179@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> schiebel@cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (Darrell Schiebel) writes:
>I am planning on purchasing an internal hard drive around 200Meg....

I just bought a 210Mb Quantum from APS after reading many recommendations for
them. It seems great so far, and about 50% faster than my old 80Mb Quantum.
It comes with adequate partitioning software, although I am told Silverlining
is better. The only surprise I got was that it is much more noisy than the old
80Mb which was almost completely silent. You can actually hear the head chug
backwards and forwards, like the floppy disk drives, but much faster.

Stuart Cheshire (cheshire@cs.stanford.edu)