Re: AEHD drives available (was: Re: AEHD drive)

[nobody@wavetech.net (Greg Buchner)]

In article <20000115044428.23182.00000689@ng-fp1.aol.com>,
supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

> Apple wanted you to buy their SCSI hard
> drives for your Mac rather than third party ones.

Not really true...it was more of a performance issue.  With a driver
written especially for that particular HD, you could get much better
performance.  I have noticed this with a drive I had originally formatted
with a patched version of Apple HD SC Setup that I later reformatted
with FWB Hard Disk Toolkit at a friends.  Read/write performance jumped
about 30-50% depending on the size of the block data read.  Macintoshes
were a performance based machine so things like this were important.
Besides, from what I always remember, third party HD's usually had
formatting software of some sort thrown in and were usually cheaper
than Apple's HD's.

Greg B.
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