Re: 810mb HD

[Don Whiteside <dwhite@shadow.net>]

On Fri, 1 Sep 1995, Arturo J. Morales wrote:

> Ok, so i found a toshiba 810mb HD for $650, which is ~$20 less than RoadWarrior.
>  The place is WorldWide technologies which is listed in Don's HomePage.
> 
> My questions:
> Is this drive going to work w/o a problem? iow, has anyone done the swap with
> the toshiba 810HD?  Has anyone bought from them before?
> 
> Thanks again... $650 dollars is a lot of money and I don't want to screw up :)

WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING!!!!

Toshiba makes _2_ series of drives in the 500M and 800M range - one is 
the short 12.7mm high drives which are just fine. The others are 19mm 
high which WILL NOT FIT IN THE CADDY!

Worldwide may have begun carrying the 12.7mm but when I bought my druve 
in June they only had the 19mm. They are NOT GREAT about specifications, 
so look at the model number and data sheet over on Road Warrior and make 
sure they are the same drives - WW _will_ provide you with the model 
number. I think the short drives are MKVs and not just MKs, but be sure 
sure sure!

And I'd be clear to anyone you buy from that it's for a laptop upgrade 
and you want to be able to return it if it's not what you need. Whether 
you insist on refund and not just exchange is up to you, but the market 
is plenty big that you can demand something from them...

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