dave@cmi.com (David Halonen) (06/05/90)
Hi all, I'm considering purchasing a GCC Tech hard drive and am concerned about its performance, reliability and usefulness. I understand that "hard" partitions can be created, protected, mounted/unmounted, etc... How good is the software they provide? Anybody willing to provide a consumer report on these guys? Thanks, David Halonen, Center for Machine Intelligence, Electronic Data Systems Ann Arbor, MI (313) 995-0900 AppleLink: N0548 Internet: dave@cmi.com
boz@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (John Boswell) (06/06/90)
David: I have a GCC Tech 80S hard disk attached to my MacPlus and: I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT!!!!!!!!!!!! It comes with it's own partitioning software that is wonderful.. It creates "true scsi" partitions, so you can use a backup program like DiskFit on *any* partition, and it doesn't try to backup another partition. (What I mean is, if you use something like HD partition to create a smaller partition of your main disk, then try to use DiskFit to backup the main disk, DiskFit will choke since it will also try to backup the smaller partion --which looks to it like a large file--) The GCC software solves this. Each partition can be passworded, as well. As for performance, it is great...I have not done any benchmarks but the docs tout an "average" access time of about 19 ms...it has caching (32k?), and also uses a 1:1 interleave ON A MAC PLUS! It has a very quiet fan, small footprint, and looks nice sitting there under my mac... It also comes pre-formated, and has SUM (II) software as well! Hope this helps... -- ************************************************************************* John Boswell (preferred)--> boz@eleazar.dartmouth.edu Dept. of Chemistry 603-646-2519 boz@dartCMS1.BITNET Dartmouth College, Hangover, Nude Hampster 03755