barad@decwrl.dec.com (Herb Barad) (12/21/88)
We are in the market for a WORM drive for our Sun 3's. Our budget is limited, so we are considering a 800 MByte drive instead of the higher capacity 2 GBytes drives. I talked to a guy from Laser Optical Technology (Santa Cruz) and he quoted a price of $3,995 (educational price). He also said that cartridges are about $250/ea. Do these prices sound reasonable? Does anyone know of any better deals? Any help would be appreciated. If I get enough responses, I'll post a summary. Thanks! Herb Barad Electrical Engineering Dept., Tulane Univ. INTERNET: barad@ee.tulane.edu USENET: barad@bourbon.uucp
news@uunet.uu.net (news) (01/04/89)
rex!barad@decwrl.dec.com (Herb Barad) writes: > We are in the market for a WORM drive for our Sun 3's. Our budget is > limited, so we are considering a 800 MByte drive > > I talked to a guy from Laser Optical Technology (Santa Cruz) and he quoted > a price of $3,995 (educational price). He also said that cartridges are > about $250/ea. When I was shopping for an optical disk for the Sun, I wanted one that caches to magnetic disk and that looked to the user like a disk, and not a tape.... I ended up buying the Maxtor QT-800 with software from a company in Virginia called ATS (Advanced Technology Systems), POC Dan Madish.... All together I paid almost $10,000 (drive, software, cables, 1 media, and VME SCSI controller)... The cost of the drive was about half of the total.... I bought more dual-sided media directly from a distributor for $125 GSA (government) price... The system works well (so far).... ATS uses the same software to drive all sorts of optical disks, including the Sony Jukebox.... I hope this helps.... Brian