lhaider@pro-beagle.cts.com (Laer Haider) (06/16/90)
I'm currently in the market for a high capacity hard disk drive (about 100 MB
or greater), and have some questions I hope some people will be gracious
enough
to answer.
I have recently seen advertisements from a company called "PowerDRIVE" in
MacUser Magazine (ok, ok, I sometimes read rags for other machines; don't beat
me). Anyways, does anyone have any experiences from this company? Their
prices are very good ($629 for a 105 MB Conner mechanism in an external drive
with power supply), but has anyone gotten a better value? Where?
Also listed is a Syquest based 45 MB removable external drive subsystem for
$649. The question about this is (and please give me your honest opinions) is
the removeable drive a better option for mass storage than a 100+ MB fixed HD?
I plan on running a 32 MB partition for MS-DOS junk (for my PCTransporter) and
would like to know other's experiences with doing this on a big fixed drive
vs.
a mid-sized removable drive.
And... If there are any other options that you consider better than the ones
I've been thinking of (above), I'd love to here them. I'm considering
spending
less than $800 for the drive, cable, terminator, and DMA SCSI card for my IIgs
with Transwarp, and would like to get the biggest drive or best value possible
for my money (of course). Any and all suggestions are appreciated.
BTW, (hope this doesn't PO anyone), I have a 1.5 MB GS-RAM card, fully loaded,
that I am trying to part with... Its in perfect condition, and I'm only
asking
$99 plus S&H (about $5). Anyone want more memory?
Laer Haider
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