leo@duttnph.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart) (09/08/90)
I have been looking through september's MacWorld trying to make up my mind about what kind of external hard disk to buy. I have narrowed my choices down to the following three advertisements: MacLand has a Quantum 170 Mb 15ms drive for $949,- Alliance Peripheral Systems has a Quantum 170 Mb 12ms drive for $999,- Ehman has a 180 Mb (no access time mentioned) drive for $900,- In this group you must be tired of seeing this kind of question all the time. But if you know anything at all, good or bad, about these three drives (or can point me to yet another choice) please mail me about it. I would really appreciate getting your opinions: it is difficult to get adequate information about these things here in Holland. Thanks in advance, -- Leo Breebaart (leo @ duttnph.tudelft.nl)
joseph@cooper.cooper.EDU (Joe Giannuzzi) (09/11/90)
in article <leo.652786474@duttnph>, leo@duttnph.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart) says: > > I have been looking through september's MacWorld trying to make up > my mind about what kind of external hard disk to buy. > > I have narrowed my choices down to the following three advertisements: > > MacLand has a Quantum 170 Mb 15ms drive for $949,- > Alliance Peripheral Systems has a Quantum 170 Mb 12ms drive for $999,- > Ehman has a 180 Mb (no access time mentioned) drive for $900,- I have an APS Quantum 170 Mb and to date have had no problem with it (about 6 months of fairly heavy usage). The drive is fast (it boots my INIT full System 6.0.5 almost three times faster than my Apple 20 Mb internal). The external drive has both a power indicator and read/write indicator, and a SCSI selector switch. All APS drives come with 12 Mb (or thereabout) of public domain software. One thing you must consider no matter what drive you get is the size of your Desktop file. If you have too many files you will start having Desktop related problems. Therefore you must either have many partitions or get a copy of the Desktop Manager from Apple. Hope this helps. Joseph -> joseph@cooper.cooper.edu OR cmcl2!cooper!joseph Disclaimer -> Reality is just a figment of your imagination.