[net.periphs] High-Capacity SCSI drives

johnf@apollo.uucp (John Francis) (12/04/85)

I thought the Control Data FSD's were on some sort of SCSI (or SCSE?) interface.
As I write I can see two of these in my office. They are 19" rack-mount, but two
of them sit side-by-side in a single 19" width. The total storage capacity of
these two babies is almost one GIGABYTE. (And I've already filled 80% of it ...)

tomb@tekecs.UUCP (Tom Beach) (12/06/85)

> I thought the Control Data FSD's were on some sort of SCSI (or SCSE?) interface.

WRONGO!

CDC's 9715 series of disk drives (9" disks, half rack)
are SMD interface. the 340 MByte and 525 MByte are high
speed SMD but *ALL* of them are SMD drives. 

I would expect CDC to migrate these drives to IPI-2
rather than SCSI.

If you want large capacity SCSI drives, Maxtor just
announced a 280 MB 5 1/4" drive with SCSI interface
(Think of how many of them you could mount in a rack :-) )
and Amcodyne (spelling?) has a fairly nice line of
8" SCSI drives now pushing towards 500MBytes.

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Tom Beach

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