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From: c8s-an@franny.Berkeley.EDU (Alex Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: External 20mb hard drives...I need some quick advice
Keywords: Mac+ needs a hard drive
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Date: 25 Sep 89 04:52:07 GMT
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In article <1989Sep23.111338.1450@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> heath@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Todd Heatherton) writes:
>I have a mac+ with one 800K drive (I just bought it yesterday).  I am
>considering another 800K drive a 20mb external.  Money is a key factor
>in my decision (I'm a post-doc with limited funds).  Can anyone give
>me any quick advice on the cheaper hard drives (specifically the
>PowerDrive Seagate from Hard Drives International $349 or the UniMac
>20 mb for $399 or the Cutting edge 20 mb for about $429).  If there
>are problems with these cheaper hard drives I will probably get the
>Cutting Edge 800K drive.

>Thanks in advance

>Todd Heatherton     Department of Psychology     University of Toronto

Hate to tell you this, but all the hard drives you've picked above
are not very reliable. I've had personal experience with Hard Drives
International, and their service for Macintosh drives is S-L-O-W.
Ehman is known here on the net for their fairly good service, but
their failure rate is nothing short of spectacular; about 20% of the
people I've talked to who've had dealings with Ehman hard drives
have had their drives fail within 6 months of purchase.

Cutting Edge is basically Ehman with a different hat on; they even
have the same address. UniMac is just a company that makes cases,
power supplies and formatting software, and they sell that package
to outside dealers including Hard Drives International.

If you can swing it, save up for at least $600 or so, in order to
get a Quantum 40 meg drive. Much faster, much more reliable, much
quieter (in general), and a longer warranty, unless you buy it
from Apple Computer, in which case you tend to get a less reliable
drive with a shorter warranty. :-)

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