dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) (10/05/88)
Given about $20,000 to $30,000 to spend on a disk drive for a VAX-11/785 running 4.3BSD, which already has two rm80s and one rp07 on the massbus, can I do better than buying an RA81 from DEC? How much better? Reliable on-site maintenance is essential. (Location: Muncie, Indiana, about 50 miles from Indianapolis). Please send email if you have suggestions. I will summarize a few weeks from now. -- Rahul Dhesi UUCP: <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi
roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) (10/05/88)
[Note: this has very little to do with either Unix or archicture so I've added comp.periphs to the Newsgroups list and directed followups there] In article <4198@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes: > Given about $20,000 to $30,000 to spend on a disk drive [...] can I do > better than buying an RA81 from DEC? Having had an RA-81 for 4 or 5 years, I can say with some assurance that just about anything else would be better. RA-81s are expensive, slow, and unreliable. What less could you want from a disk drive? For $30k, you should be able to buy a couple of Fuji SuperEagles and a good Emulex controller, or any of several other high-quality drives from Fuji or NEC. If you prefer to buy American, CDC has several good products. -- Roy Smith, System Administrator Public Health Research Institute {allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!roy -or- phri!roy@uunet.uu.net "The connector is the network"