Path: news.uh.edu!barrett From: dale@iam.iam.com (Dale L. Larson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.reviews Subject: MINI-REVIEW: Conner 420MB DS420A hard drive kit Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Date: 3 Oct 1994 16:39:36 GMT Organization: The Amiga Online Review Column - ed. Daniel Barrett Lines: 42 Sender: amiga-reviews@math.uh.edu (comp.sys.amiga.reviews moderator) Distribution: world Message-ID: <36pc48$ch2@masala.cc.uh.edu> Reply-To: dale@iam.iam.com (Dale L. Larson) NNTP-Posting-Host: karazm.math.uh.edu Keywords: hardware, IDE, hard drive, commercial Originator: barrett@karazm.math.uh.edu I'd like to follow up on last week's Samsung SHD-3212A IDE hard disk review (Sep 29, 1994) with a quick mini-review of the Conner 420MB kit. Last week, I bought the kit (which PC software, cable, and mounting hardware) at MicroCenter for $210 (US), since they were out of stock on a 540MB drive they'd advertised for about $289. Once I figured out IDE master/slave jumpering, I had my original and new drives working great. I get up to about 1.5MB/sec writes and about 1MB/sec reads. No spinup problems. Anyone using an A4000 without SCSI and without more than 100-200MB of hard drive should probably run out to buy one of the current, nice, cheap ~500MB IDE drives out there. Conner Peripherals, Inc. 3081 Zanker Road San Jose, CA 95134 USA Toll Free Customer Support: (800) 4-CONNER World-wide: (408) 456-4500 I assume they don't sell direct, but could give you the names of dealers near you. By the way, in case you can get the drive bare (no mounting hardware, PC software, etc.) rather than in the kit, the drive model number is DS420A. -- Dale L. Larson "That's the best part about being crazy. Intangible Assets Manufacturing You see things no one else can see." dale@iam.com -Dirk Pitt --- Daniel Barrett, Moderator, comp.sys.amiga.reviews Send reviews to: amiga-reviews-submissions@math.uh.edu Request information: amiga-reviews-requests@math.uh.edu Moderator mail: amiga-reviews@math.uh.edu Anonymous ftp site: math.uh.edu, in /pub/Amiga/comp.sys.amiga.reviews