rcleon@svbs01.bs.win.tue.nl (Leon Oninckx) (12/07/90)
Within a few weeks our new HP9000/433s and 9000/425t machines will arrive. These machines have a SCSI interface, and we will use Domain/OS as operating system. We are considering buying extra disks. I have checked with HP, but their disks are not very cheap. I have seen an offer from another company offering HP97459 drives (1GB) for 6500 guilders (~3500 US$) and also HP97548 (663MB) for 4600 dutch guilders (~2500 US$). I tried to get more info on these Hewlett Packard disks, but the HP office has not heard about them. Does someone have any experiences with these? I also would like to hear if there are other companies offering reliable, good and not too expensive (that's what we all want, right? :-) ) drives. I heard names like Fujitsu and Wren. Are they also supported by Domain/OS, or will I be able to use them? For your information, the above mentioned HP drives come with 5 year factory warranty. That seems a good deal to me, you don't need hardware support if you have such a warranty, but why does HP not have info on them? They don't offer those disks. I will post a summary of the replies if there is interest. Thanks, -Leon -- | Leon Oninckx, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands | Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Design Automation Section | P.O. Box 513, room EH 7.07, NL-5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands | email : rcleon@win.tue.nl, onnie@es.ele.tue.nl | phone : +31 (40) 474251 telefax : +31 (40) 448375