Re: now's the time to buy a hard drive!

[fmlin@netcom.com (Frank M. Lin)]

>	And Frank is pretty much right. $1 a MB is about average for IDE
>but most SCSI drive I see around here run for about $2-$3 a MB. Still
>pretty high up locally. I bought my 85MB Quantum external 3.5" for around
>$380, and that included the case; that was last December.

The biggest IDE drive I've seen is ~550mb.  All high compacity, high
performance drives are SCSI-2 these days, and all the big SCSI-2 drives
have $1/mb or less.  Quantum 1.8g PD series for like $1499, and so on.

Quantum LPS240s for right about $250.  All the prices I'm talking are just
for bare drives, however.

Only exception to under $1/mb I see right now is the ultra high performance
3.5" Seagate Baracudas ( and very few others ), these drives have some 
awesome specs.  :-)

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frank m. lin
fmlin@netcom.com