Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bunny!hor-res!berry From: berry@hor-res.UUCP (No comment) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Pioneer Computing 65 meg hard drive $649.95 Summary: I own a 65m Pioneer...It's great! Message-ID: <194@hor-res.UUCP> Date: 6 Jun 88 02:15:38 GMT References: <291@braille.UWO.CDN> Distribution: na Organization: Horizon Research, Waltham MA Lines: 48 In article <291@braille.UWO.CDN>, rick@braille.UWO.CDN (rick berger) writes: > > I know the subject line of this item is promoting an obvious typing error > from Pioneer Computing's ad in "COMPUTE!'s Amiga Buyer's Guide", but Unfortuneately the price is not quite the one you quoted. Mine cost me $870.00 + shipping (I have a A2000 or is that a B2000?). The drive is a Micro- polis (native SCSI) and it uses a CLTD controller. I have had no problems with it so far ( I have had it a month ) and anticipate none. The performance from diskperf is: read- 35910 bytes/sec write 17832 b/s. This is with a buffer size of 512 bytes. Performance goes up linearly with buffer size ( efficiency does down at the same time ! ) > maybe it will get some information flowing about them. These guy's prices > are the best I seen for hard drives and their ads are getting bigger You got that right. > as time goes on. Unfortunately magazines ads are the only information > I can get from them, even two months after calling them for product data I think they are REAL busy filling orders. The phone is ALWAYS busy. Just keep trying, they were very helpfull over the phone answering ANY question I had. > drives? And just in case, if their 65 meg drive is $20.00 less than > their 20 meg drive would someone please let me "pdq". prices are as follows: (as far as I know) 20 meg - $659. 40 meg - $879. 65 meg - $949. these prices include the controller, case, power supply and the cord. Subtract about $70 to get the bare drive. Unbelieveable huh? Again - I don't represent these people I am just a satisified customer. -- -Steve Berry- ...!bunny!hor-res!berry "She's not a woman, she's the terminator!" - Throw Mama from the Train