muswick@ego.uh.cwru.edu (02/22/91)
In article <1690@tcs.tcs.com>, jac@zion.berkeley.edu (Gordon Jacobs) writes: > > I am about to take the plunge and buy an optical read/write disk > subsystem for my DECstation 3100. I was considering the Tri-marchi > drive, which contains a built in hardware driver so that it looks like > any other rz disk. (no special software driver needed) They use a RICOH > drive and the disks hold about 600Mb each. It sounds like the best one > for the DECstation, and the price is $2995. (disks are about $200). > > If anyone has experience with this drive or its operation/installation on > a DECstation 3100, please let me know. I'm interested to hear if it is > reliable or if there are any competing brands which compare favorably... > > Thanks, > Gordie Jacobs jac@zion.berkeley.edu > We are currently using a Maxtor Tahiti-1 on a DECstation 3100 with no problems. The disks are little more, $275.00 1GB platter, but you have the choice 600MB iso or 1GB platters. It is very fast, we benchmarked 500kb per second writes and 750k reads. The drives cost around $4500.00. Gary Muswick