willis@auvax.UUCP (Tony Willis) (03/22/88)
It looks like I will have $5K Cdn ($4K U.S.) to spend on a
disk drive for a Sun 3 workstation. Can anyone steer me
toward a good disk for this price? I would like a formatted
storage capacity of more than 300 Mbytes if possible.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Tony Willis
Athabasca University ...{ubc-vision,ihnp4}!alberta!auvax!willis uucp
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Canada (403) 675-6221 berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu (03/24/88)
Are you talking about SCSI or SMD interface?
Mike Berger
Department of Statistics
Science, Technology, and Society
University of Illinois
berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu
{ihnp4 | convex | pur-ee}!uiucuxc!clio!bergerevan@ndcheg.UUCP (Evan Bauman) (03/25/88)
In article <574@auvax.UUCP>, willis@auvax.UUCP (Tony Willis) writes: > It looks like I will have $5K Cdn ($4K U.S.) to spend on a > disk drive for a Sun 3 workstation. Can anyone steer me > toward a good disk for this price? I would like a formatted > storage capacity of more than 300 Mbytes if possible. > Thanks for any suggestions. > > OK. I was going to keep this under wraps until we could use it a little more. We just rolled our own SCSI disk for a Sun 3/50 using the instructions so generously provided by Tony Dale in the Sun-Spots newsgroup. We used the same parts he used, except that we substituted a Micropolis 1558 for the Micropolis 1355. This gives us 320 MB of formatted storage. The total cost of the project was somewhere between $3000 and $3100 but we did get an educational discount on the drive and controller board. Very soon, I'm going to write up exactly what we purchased, where we got it from, how we put it together, and how we use it. It will be posted to Sun-Spots. I will say that once we did get the parts, the whole thing went together with just a few hours of work. Evan Bauman Univ. of Notre Dame ..!iuvax!ndcheg!evan -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message has been sponsored by Powdermilk Biscuits in the big blue box. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
berger@datacube.UUCP (03/25/88)
CDC Wren IV about 300 mbytes formated cost US$2200. You need to tell
diag the disk layout. Can be purchased from distributers like Arrow
Electronics or Ron Burress Nordisk 213-942-1797.
Bob Berger
Datacube Inc. Systems / Software Group 4 Dearborn Rd. Peabody, Ma 01960
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