hue@netcom.UUCP (Jonathan Hue) (02/04/90)
The latest Bay Area Computer Currents had a full page ad for Corporate Systems Center. I saw four pretty good deals on 3.5" SCSI drives: Quantum Q40 40MB $295 Rodime 3085 67MB $495 Quantum Q80 80MB $549 Conner CP3100 100MB $595 Most of the stuff they sell is new, but some of it is refurbished (it's clearly marked on their price list if it is). Call them for more information. They do mail order and take credit cards. Corporate Systems Center 730 North Pastoria Ave. Sunnyvale, CA 94086 +1 408 737 7312. I have nothing to do with this place, except I once bought a disk drive from them, which has performed flawlessly (so far). -Jonathan
hue@netcom.UUCP (Jonathan Hue) (02/09/90)
In article <6608@netcom.UUCP> hue@netcom.UUCP (That's me!) writes: > >The latest Bay Area Computer Currents had a full page ad for Corporate >Systems Center. I saw four pretty good deals on 3.5" SCSI drives: > >Quantum Q40 40MB $295 Another Amiga owner at work picked up one of these and a 2091 from Go Amigo a couple days ago (they had three 2091s left on Monday afternoon). They are the 40S drives, which according to the manual means they have the 64KB cache on them. They are also new, not pulled or refurbished. The report I got was that installation was straightforward (after removing the plastic faceplate on the drive), and HDToolBox did it's usual great job of identifying, formatting, and partitioning the drive. One weird thing was that HDToolBox had a Q40 drive definition with 9.7 as its (firmware?) revision number, but when it queried the drive it got something like 6.7. So I guess it's possible that these drives have been sitting around for quite a while. Hopefully they aren't from a production run that had reliability problems (were those rumors true?). These are the results of diskperf on this drive (stock 2000 + 2091 + Q40S) File create/delete: create 11 files/sec, delete 26 files/sec Directory scan: 96 entries/sec Seek/read test: 80 seek/reads per second r/w speed: buf 512 bytes, rd 37073 byte/sec, wr 26726 byte/sec r/w speed: buf 4096 bytes, rd 160496 byte/sec, wr 105208 byte/sec r/w speed: buf 8192 bytes, rd 263240 byte/sec, wr 154581 byte/sec r/w speed: buf 32768 bytes, rd 403298 byte/sec, wr 234755 byte/sec r/w speed: buf 131072 bytes, rd 533174 byte/sec, wr 324301 byte/sec r/w speed: buf 524288 bytes, rd 582542 byte/sec, wr 349525 byte/sec -Jonathan (green with envy over George's 2000+2091+Q40S)
LDSHANER@MTUS5.BITNET (Leon D. Shaner) (02/10/90)
I remember a few mail order companies taking advantage of an inventory close out offered by Quantum. They made *tons* of 40S drives available at a phenomenally low price. These were discontinued drives, and this all happened last summer. Quantum said the drives had nothing wrong with them, they just started shipping the newer revision drives, and found it more cost effective to sell the older drive below cost than trying to upgrade them. ---- Disclaimer: My opinions are my own and do not reflect any affiliation with Quantum. This information provided as a service in light of a telephone conversation with both a distributor and Quantum. ------- +--------------------------------+----------------------------------+ | Leon D. Shaner <LDSHANER@MTUS5> :BBS: Amiga Bitswap Center Dispatch: | EE UNDER GRAD. : (906)487-0006 <-AMIGA ONLY! : | MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY : FREE! - 24 HOURS - 80 MB : +------------------------------------+----------------------------------+