wuwei@acf2.NYU.EDU (Wei Wu) (07/18/90)
Is anyone using ST296N (SCSI) drives ? Is it any good ? Why the price is so different(296N is much cheaper) from ST4096 (MFM) with almost the same size ? Thanks in advance.
cassirer@batgirl.rtp.dg.com (Fred Cassirer) (07/20/90)
In article <28060001@acf2.NYU.EDU> wuwei@acf2.NYU.EDU (Wei Wu) writes: > > Is anyone using ST296N (SCSI) drives ? Is it any good ? Why the >price is so different(296N is much cheaper) from ST4096 (MFM) with >almost the same size ? > Thanks in advance. > I've been running one on my Amiga for about 6-8 months now, no problems. It replaced a 20MB seagate (65ms access) and man what a difference. I can't speak for it on a PC, I use a standard MFM 15 MB on my 12mhz AT, couldn't see wastin all that space ... I've got one possible "bad spot" on the disk in the middle of a large file, but that's most likely my flakey hardware ... I didn't understand either why this 80MB drive was so much cheaper then other comparable 80MB drives. I paid about $475 thru California MicroChip out of Computer Shopper. -FredC /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ < Fred Cassirer ...rti!dg.rtp.com!cassirer > < Data General Corporation Research Triangle Park, NC > \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/