[SPARCbook] Re: wanted: HD caddy

[Ken Hansen]

Well, Tadpole wont sell them without a drive inside, and those prices seem
to hit $1K
very quickly (compared with raw drive prices)... To find one on the open
market would
be a real find, and it's value would approach $150 in my best guess.

The ideal case would have an IDE <-> SCSI adapter included, and those
adapters
alone fetch around $150 and up, if you can find them.

So you could be looking at $200 -> $300 for a caddie and an SCSI/IDE
adapter!

If my prices seem high, ask yourself what it is worth to have a portable
system vs.
a desktop system...

Most folks got exactly one caddy with their sparcbook, and if they sell the
caddy,
the laptop is worth *much* less. About $300 less in my opinion. I think the
previous
owner realized the part value exceeded the value of the whole, and sold off
the bits...

I think you have a machine that will run on ext. SCSI drives for quite a
while...

Sorry,

Ken
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mat Maessen" <tomatoe at nycap.rr.com>
To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 6:54 PM
Subject: [SPARCbook] Re: wanted: HD caddy


> -
> > I would suggest you reconsider the motivation to buy additional
caddies -
> > I have a 6.4 Gig HD in my SPARCBook and it is plenty large enough
> > to hold multiple OSs (for most end-user applications, IMHO)...
>
> Well, here's the situation:
> The machine is arriving to me in a day or so with _zero_ internal HD
caddies.
> I'm planning on getting a decent-sized 2.5" drive to put inside the
machine, but
> I need a caddy to put it in.
> In the meantime, I do have an external disk that I can attach to the SCSI
chain
> to play around with, but the machine isn't truly portable until it can
boot and
> run without me lugging around an external drive.
>
> > A caddy will cost you *lots* (if you can find one, then you will need a
> > SCSI adapter (or make do with a displaced 1.2 Gig SCSI HD from
> > someone elses SPARCBook).
>
> I'd be happy w/ a displaced 1.2 gig drive, if it included a caddy. How
much is
> *lots*, anyway?
>
> thanks
>
> -Mat
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