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- From: ph@pencom.com (Patrick Hester)
- Subject: Toshiba MK538FB Summary
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.162657.28827@pencom.com>
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- Organization: Pencom Systems Incorporated
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:26:57 GMT
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- A little while back I posted asking about the Toshiba MK538FB drive. Lots
- of people responded and here is a summary.
-
- The Toshiba MK538FB is a 3-1/2" half height drive. Capacity is 1.2gig and
- access speed is 12ms. Transfer rate is 10mb/s and it has a 512k cache.
- The drive comes with a 5 year warrantee.
-
- Overall people had good things to say about this drive. In fact there
- was only one serious negative, but I'll get to that in a bit.
-
- As far as I know everyone who responded used the drive in a slab. One
- poster mentioned that side of the slab was a little warm but that they
- didn't have any real heat problems. Supposedly the smaller drives can
- have a bit of a heat problem. This would probably be a factor if you
- are installing the disk in a slab which doesn't get much ventilation.
-
- People say it's faster than their old drives, but I suppose that
- is relative.
-
- It was mentioned several times that the drive does a noisy seek
- but that they didn't mind after a day or so. It is reportedly quiet
- when at idle.
-
- One responder had a minor problem lining up the mounting screws but
- managed to get it mounted using two screws instead of all four. And
- One person said an external SCSI terminator is required when installing
- as an internal drive.
-
- As for the major negative report, one responder wrote about a posting
- describing vibration problems with two of the drives. I seem to recall
- this post, but I am confused because the header said Toshiba and the
- post itself said Fujitsu (which I've heard alot of bad about). Anyway
- I was unable to reach either the guy with the original problem or the
- one who relayed the information to me due to bogus net connectivity.
- So if you are rainman!brian@ms.uky.edu, please clear this up... Did you
- have problems with Toshiba or Fujitsu?
-
- Did I buy one? I was THIS CLOSE...
- Then someone mentioned a Quantum drive in the same range. So I am going
- to do the same question/response/summary thing again and then choose
- between the two.
-
- Thanks to all who responded, especially Royce Howland, Ted Shuck, John
- Mastrolia, John Todd and Larry Blische. And apologies to Edmund Ronald
- who wanted my old drive, cause I'm keeping it.
-
- --
- Patrick Hester ph@pencom.com (212) 513-7777 NeXT Mail OK =8(\/\)
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