gfc@trilby.UUCP (Greg Carlson) (08/28/90)
I have seen some ads for the Maxtor LXT-200 that make it look pretty good (3.5", 200MB, 15ms, 5MB/s) but I was wondering if anybody out there has used one, and if so, is it as good as the ads would seem to indicate. The price seems very good too ($895 in Computer Shopper). Also, does it work with the Adaptec 1542A/B. Please E-mail and I'll post any concensus. -- ***************************************************************************** * big box; no ideas * * ...uunet!edsews!rphroy!trilby!gfc * *****************************************************************************
gfc@trilby.UUCP (Greg Carlson) (08/31/90)
I have seen some ads recently for the Maxtor LXT-200 that make it look pretty good (3.5", 200MB, 5MB/s, 15ms and $895 in Computer Shopper). Does anyone out there use this drive? and if so, how is it? I also had a question about the IDE vs SCSI decision. Someone here recently mentioned that a local dealer could replace his/her current drive with an IDE drive that plugged into the mother board (and this person had a clone). I thought that the PS/2's had this capability but I didn't think that any clones did. If this is true, would this imply that you could achieve a very high data transfer rate because of not having to stuff your data through the PC bus? Sorry about what turned out to be a long IDE question in this group but people in this group seem to know a lot about all types of drives. Thank you in advance for any responses.