From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 20 16:39:13 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA12333 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 20 May 1995 16:39:13 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA12327 for ; Sat, 20 May 1995 16:39:10 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA02481; Sat, 20 May 1995 16:38:50 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199505202338.QAA02481@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: 4gig drive for $1099 To: hasty@star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Date: Sat, 20 May 1995 16:38:50 -0700 (PDT) Cc: phk@ref.tfs.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9505202252.AA04404@ baycon.org > from "Amancio Hasty" at May 20, 95 03:35:28 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1327 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > Check out > > http://www.quantum.com > > and you'll see why :-) > > > > Care to clarify ... Yea, Poul, what does it say in there Web pages that I have missed that would give you reason to think Quantum has something to do with the fire sale (at distributor cost, which they are not suppose to do) on Grand Prix drives (buyer beware, these have had compatibility problems with NCR 53C810 controllers). Just becuase the Empire II and Atlas II drives have been ``announced'', they are far from avaliable in distribution channels. I really don't expect to see these new drives for 60 days, and they well be on allocation. >From the web page itself: Volume production of the Quantum Empire II and Quantum Atlas II drives will begin in the fourth quarter of 1995, with evaluation units available in the third quarter. Single unit OEM prices are as follows: ^^^^^^^^^^^ 9.1GB: $2,995 9.1GB: $2,495 4.3GB: $1,795 4.3GB: $1,495 2.1GB: $1,195 2.1GB: $995 Yea, okay, so the new drive is going to be $1500. But it won't be out until 4th quarter, that should not drive the current price down any. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD