From: rutledge@mcs-next-11 (Geoffrey Rutledge)
Subject: Maxtor 2112, cheap 1GB 3.5"drive (Was Ever heard of this?)
Reply-To: rutledge@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 23:38:50 GMT

In article <192jk9INNigm@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> alex@b62150 (Alexander Hay)  
writes:
> 
> Hello Everyone!
> 
>      Earlier this year I received the following piece of mail from a  
> friend who had pulled it off of the next news group in late 1991 
> [deleted]
> 
> 
> Frank Hartlep (mauriti@opal.cs.tu-berlin-de) writes:
> >> Coming soon:
> >
> >> Micropolis 2112 1 Gig. 3.5" hard disk drive
> >
> >> 10 ms access time
> >> Typical power consumption of 12 Watts
> >> Utilizes SCSI-2 interface
> >> up to 10 Mbyte/s transfer rate
> >> Supports command queuing
> >> 256 Kbyte command buffer/data cache
> >
> >> Initial shipments to start in 3rd quarter of this year and expected  
> prices
> >> of about $1/Mbyte in 1992
> >> No release pricing was given.
> >  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >Does anybody know if the company announced the price by now?
 [more deleted] 

> ...According to the data sheets this drive is as quiet as the 105 
> Quantum (which most seem to think is quiet ~35db).
> 
> However, the drive isn't available until the end of this year.  
> Micropolis Sales told me that engineering samples for
> they start full production and will sell for <$1000 (prob. $999.95).
> So for 1/2 the price of getting a 340MB instead of a 105MB, you
> get 1GB + 105MB.  You can get the 105 a case, power supply, & 
> cable and use it as a portable hard disk (for taking your 
> work home [or home to work]).
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I have no experience with the Micropolis 2112 drive. For what it is worth, the  
recent price, as quoted on clari.streetprice, is
                                                 Price
Micropolis 2112;1050MB;SCSI;3.5 ;HH;10ms;       ;2288;SoundElectroFlight  ;(d)
Micropolis 2112;1050MB;SCSI;3.5 ;HH;10ms;       ;2379;DC Drives           ;(d)
Micropolis 2112;1050MB;SCSI;3.5 ;HH;10ms;AT kit ;2529;DC Drives           ;(d)

as compared with 
                                                 Price
Hewlett-Packard;1050MB;SCSI;3.5 ;HH;10ms;       ;2327;Direct Drives       ;(l)
Seagate        ;1200MB;SCSI;3.5 ;HH;    ;SCSI-2 ;1999;HDSS                ;(d)
                                         Price
Seagate ST41200 1050MB SCSI 5.25 FH 16ms 1650 DAX Systems          (b)
Micropolis 1598 1049MB SCSI 5.25 FH 14ms 1749 HDSS                 (d)
Micropolis 1528 1345MB SCSI 5.25 FH 14ms 1875 DC Drives            (d)
Maxtor PO-12S   1027MB SCSI 5.25 FH 13ms 1599 HDSS                 (d)
Fujitsu M2266S  1079MB SCSI 5.25 FH 14ms 1806 S.A.G. Electronics   (k)
Fujitsu M2266SA 1079MB SCSI 5.25 FH 14ms 1695 ARC                  (b)

Sources of Information:

         (a) Comp-u-store, September 9
         (b) Computer Hotline, September
         (c) Computer Monthly, September
         (d) Computer Shopper, September
         (e) User-Contributed, September
         (f) Vendor Catalog, September
         (g) Comp-u-store, August 26
         (h) Comp-u-store, August 12
         (i) Ziff Buyers' Market, August 10
         (j) Computer Hotline, August
         (k) Computer Monthly, August
         (l) Computer Shopper, August
         (m) PC Magazine, August
         (n) User-Contributed, August

I would be curious to hear people's opinions about the relative merits of these  
drives as external units for a NeXT. I would like to upgrade my external  
Quantum LPS210 to a larger capacity device!
--
Geoffrey Rutledge             (rutledge@sumex-aim.stanford.edu)