[tech] Re: [committee] hdd4mako

[Nick Bannon]

On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 01:00:15PM +0800, Ben Rampling wrote:
> Apparently either we don't have any spare hdd's, or we don't have anyone that
> cares,

That's probably about the sum of it, but you could try putting it on
this afternoon's agenda. (run "agenda" on mermaid, mussel or starfish)

> so I'd like to buy a brand new Quantum Fireball CX, 6.4Gb for the 
> machine. It's $210, and probably overkill (You can't buy any smaller, 
[...]

It should be less than that, particularly tax-ex.

However, if we're buying a new drive, I'd suggest upping the spec to
a 6GB or 9GB Fireball KA drive - they're noticably faster to use, and
almost as cheap. In fact, if we bought two and stuck one into mermaid,
we could be free of the evil Bigfoot as well.

Tax inc. prices from http://rtv.ii.net/ ;

6.4GB Quantum Fireball CX Ultra DMA/66 Hard Disk 512K Cache -	$205
6.4GB Quantum Fireball KA Ultra DMA/66 7200RPM Hard Disk -	$265
9.1GB Quantum Fireball KA Ultra DMA/66 7200RPM Hard Disk -	$315

Tax inc. prices from http://simline.ii.net/ ;

6.4GB Fireball CX, UltraDMA/66, 3.5", 512KB Cache, 5400RPM	$190
6.4GB Fireball Plus KA, UltraDMA/66, 3.5", 512KB Cache, 7200RPM	$265
9.1GB Fireball Plus KA, UltraDMA/66, 3.5", 512KB Cache, 7200RPM	$290

Probably a good idea to call Efficient Chips, too.

[...]
> This needs to be done quickly - I'm happy to arrange the purchase of the
> drive, pickup, etc if committee will arrange the cheque.

That would be excellent.

Nick.

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