dab@mtgzz.UUCP (d.a.berk) (05/22/85)
Does anyone know anything about the reliability 40 MB hard disks for the UNIX PC? Also, has anybody had any experience with one from any VAR ? (I have heard of a firm in N.J. called Computer Integration Assoc. that offers a 40 MB drive, anyone have any experience with them?) Thanx; Dave Berk ATT-IS, Holmdel ihnp4!mtgzz!dab
bb@wjh12.UUCP (byer) (05/23/85)
> >ihnp4!mtgzz!dab, Dave Berk asks: > Does anyone know anything about the reliability 40 MB hard disks > for the UNIX PC? > Also, has anybody had any experience with one from any VAR ? > I've said it before, and here again: You will be very sorry, and frustrated, if you partake of secondary storage, on a Un*x system, with avg. access times > ~35ms. Someone is peddling a 40Mb hard disk (sic) for the AT&T PC with avg. access of 85 (eighty-five!!) ms. That is a hard !floppy! Also, check for the formatted capacity; there's lots of shleezebags in this biz nowadays, and you may only find 31 meg usable. brent byer