earle@jplopto.uucp (Greg Earle) (08/31/87)
This is a rehashed topic, but with the base price of a 16" color Sun-3/60C being under $10K ($9900), which translates to $6930 for those places lucky enough to have 30% discounts, it's really time to start looking seriously at this machine. The problem of course is that Sun is Not In The Disk Business. Thus, to get the minimum level of functionality out of the machine as a standalone, you have to get the 141 Mbyte SCSI/ESDI disk & 60 Mbyte 1/4" tape. This lists for $6500 (/$4550 @ 30%); in other words, almost 65-70% of the cost of the machine itself. Ouch. Thus, has anyone compiled The Definitive List of 3rd party SCSI/ESDI disks & tapes, which can be used in the 3/60? Preferably, those that are compatible with the Sysgen SC4000 controller (& driver) so you don't have to `roll your own'. I'm particularly interested in finding equivalent tape storage (60 Mbytes in QIC-24 format) at a lower price, and in finding either equivalent disk at a lower price, or (much?) higher capacity disk at (around) the same price. Like, say for instance a 300 Mbyte disk (formatted) & 60 Mbyte tape combo for a cost in the $5K - $7K range, or 150 Mbyte disk & 60 Mbyte tape for $5K or less (rough guess-timates here). Also, hopefully the disk's specs. will put it in about the 141 Mbyte disk's ballpark (1.2 Mbytes/sec data transfer rates, 23 msec ave. access). Thanks in advance, Greg Earle earle@jplopto.JPL.NASA.GOV Freelance Sun earle%jplopto@jpl-elroy.ARPA [aka:] Consultant earle%jplopto@elroy.JPL.NASA.GOV (write me) ...!cit-vax!elroy!smeagol!jplopto!earle