Re: Some upgrading questions...

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

MJMahon (mjmahon@aol.com) wrote:
: Several replies in this thread have suggested that IDE hard
: disks and SCSI hard disks are "about the same price" or
: SCSI's are "only about $10-$20 more expensive."
: Well, not according to the ads I read!  I'm a "bottom feeder"
: when it comes to enhancing my Apple //, as I suspect many
: are, in that I shop for deep discounts and other people's junk.
: At Fry's (an electronics superstore in the Bay area), 220MB
: IDE drives (with caches) go on sale for about $99, and 405MB
: Maxtor IDE's (also cached) for $159.  I have *never* seen a
: SCSI drive for less than $60-$100 more than the equivalent
: capacity IDE--when they are "loss leaders."  Perhaps this
: is because the Mac market keeps the price umbrella higher
: on SCSI drives, or maybe it's that almost 9 times as many
: IDE drives are sold as SCSI drives.

Well, my new APS catalog lists a Quantum 270 for $179, a 540 for $269, and
a 730 for $299. When you're talking Apple II's, don't forget to add in the
cost of a controller. What does whatever kind of IDE card you can get sell
for? I'd expect that the difference between it and a SCSI card is more than the
difference in the drives. Not to mention how SCSI is what Apple uses and IDE is
what IBM-oids use. Except for Quadra 630's that is, and most people I've seen
over in comp.sys.mac land are trying to figure out how to put SCSI drives in
those. BTW Maxtor SCSI's are fairly cheap too, but I've only heard bad things
regarding their reliability. APS doesn't sell them any more.
I'll stick with SCSI myself. Then when I get that 730 mb my Quadra has been
wanting, I can hand-me-down the 230 mb it's using now to my IIgs.
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Randy Shackelford                                 thank you, drive through
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