According to my calculations and assuming a modest 210 sectors on a microdrive it works out at nearly 4 million microdrives. That's even more than Quanta has in stock for resale!!
Regards to all, John Gilpin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Malcolm Cadman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 9:32 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] new hard disk In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Last week I was pestering you all with questions about formatting a >new Hitachi Deskstar 250GB hard disk I was having problems with. > >I sent it back, the company quickly sent me a replacement and it >worked first time when set up today, exactly how all the helpful >replies suggested it ought to. > >Thank you all, I've given Windoze 40GB to do with as it pleases (since >the second hard drive has enough space to do a full backup of the C: >drive), and the other 200GB partition will hold my music and QL files. > >Hopefully Windoze will do less damage to it than the couriers did! > >Incidentally, my first impressions of this hard disk are excellent. >About £45 including VAT and carriage for the 250GB IDE133 T7K250, and >it's pretty fast and quiet. > >Thank you everyone for your kind help. Yes, I am toying with getting a 400GB hard drive ... I guess we just can't get enough of it ... :-) I wonder how many QL microdrives that is the equivalent of ? -- Malcolm Cadman _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
