clark@cme.nbs.gov (Steve Clark) (01/04/89)
<standard opening line:> I have a question for the net. I will be buying two new 3/60s Real Soon Now to replace overloaded 3/50s. I would like to buy diskless machines from Sun and hang third-party SCSI disks off of them (==> save mucho denario). What I am looking for from netters is your experiences with any third-party drives (I'm looking for about 140 Mb per), for example: How much did it cost (especially if you're in government => GSA pricing)? How long did you wait for delivery? Did it run out of the box? Did it come with the right cables? Did it blow up after a week? Would you do it again, or would you rather pay the extra $$ to Sun? If you reply by e-mail, and if there seems to be interest, I'll post a summary. Thanks for your help ... -steve Steve Clark National Institute for Standards and Technology (formerly NBS) Bldg. 220, Rm. A127 Gaithersburg, MD, 20899 ARPA: clark@cme.nbs.gov (301)975-3595 / 3544 usenet: ..uunet!cme-durer!clark
clark@cme.nbs.gov (Steve Clark) (01/24/89)
Thanks for the responses. As it turned out, I ended up being under fairly tight time constraints, and so had to put in a purchase order before my request even showed up on the local news :-). Here's a summary: Cranel INC. The Peripheral People 510G East Wilson Bridge Road Worthington, OH 43085 614-433-0045 attn: Robert Hahn "We have been using there subsystems for about 6 months now and have seen no problems ... They seen to have about the best pricing you can get and sun will maintain there equipment for you." - Robert Henkel <henkel@cis.ohio-state.edu> Peripherals Design, Inc., Atlanta, GA Tel: (404) 263-0067 Fax: (404) 263-0405 170 Mb shoebox $2390 - installed by vendor - university discount - From: gt-eedsp!jensen@gatech.edu (P. Allen Jensen) Software Associcates 860 Broad St. Emmaus, Pennsylvania 18048 (215)967-6615 141 Mb artecon shoebox $2800 650 Mb artecon SCSI disk subsystem $9745 - this is a Sun-clone: SCSI interface; internally ESDI "... I have been very satisfied with the disk I bought and yes I would do it again." - brittain@aiu1.IC.ORNL.GOV (Carlton Ray Brittain) Tenex Toronto? WrenIII (155MB) Can$2475 WrenIV (300MB) Can$2775 (latter is a bare drive with a SCSI card) "They didn't come with the right cables and we had lots of trouble getting them going, but they kept on sending down their technical people to get it right." - Peter Marshall <peter%hadrian.uwo.ca@CORNELLC.ccs.cornell.edu> Uninet, Santa Ana, CA (714)547-3000 300 Mb shoebox $2900. 600 Mb shoebox $4400. 'All shoeboxes are class A certified and are "plug-and-play"' - uunet!zardoz!neil (Neil Gorsuch) Unison Information Systems LTD. 9 High Street Westboro, MA 01581 (508)898-0072 141 Mb shoebox (internally ESDI) $2890 141 Mb shoebox (straight SCSI) $2352 according to Unison, the latter disk gives slightly higher performance; the price premium is simply for complete Sun clone-ness. Both are shipped formatted. "I don't know if I would recommend Unison though, they seem pretty fly-by-night. There are other companies that will give 1 year warranties and such..." - srs!matt@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Matt Goheen) Unison gives a 90 day DOA replacement policy and a 1 year warrantee. -steve Steve Clark National Institute for Standards and Technology (formerly NBS) Bldg. 220, Rm. A127 ARPA: clark@cme.nbs.gov Gaithersburg, MD, 20899 clark@cme-durer.arpa (301)975-3595 / 3544 usenet: ..uunet!cme-durer!clark