Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ptsfa!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!hplabs!hpda!hpsmtc1!kwallich From: kwallich@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (Ken Wallich) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mac ][ Hardware ? (Help Please) Message-ID: <11540086@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> Date: 11 Dec 87 20:57:52 GMT References: <10778@duke.cs.duke.edu> Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino Lines: 19 >Alan Lovejoy writes: >[some good info deleted...] >a few drives which cost less than $20/MB. The drive with the best $/MB >stores 155MB with 18.5 millisecond avg access time and a $/MB of about $12! Actually the best $/MB listed in the MacWorld article goes to a 300MB drive from AB products (actually I can't remember the name, that was a wild guess, and is almost certainly wrong), which also has around an 18ms avg access time, and runs a little over $8 a megabyte ($2500 for the drive). Great deal! Of course, it is an external drive. (I'm waiting for the half hight, 1GB drive from vapor systems :-)) -------------------- Ken Wallich *My views are mine, and mine alone* Consultant "Slimey? Mud Hole? my HOME this is!" DCI kwallich@hpsmtc1.HP.COM @Hewlett Packard ...hplabs!hpsmtc1!kwallich "Why am I soft in the middle, when the rest of my life is so hard? - P.Simon"