CARL@SCU.BITNET (CARL FUSSELL) (04/21/88)
I was hoping that the experience of readers of this list might be able to help us... Our site needs to add some additional disk storage to our system. Presently, all our existing drives are vanilla DEC (predominently RA81 drives hanging off an HSC50). We are thinking about trying non-Dec drives for the first time. Does anyone have any experience, comments, or advice on alternative vendors we might look at for drives in the 1/2GB - 1GB capacity range? In particular, we are looking at SI and Emulex but comments on others would be welcome and appreciated. Are non-Dec solutions reliable? How's the performance? Are there maintenance problems (all our current hardware is under Dec service agreements)? When problems do arise, do a lot of "finger pointing" occur? An so on... Thanx in advance for any help. (if there is an interest, I would be happy to either post results or summarize it) Carl Fussell Santa Clara Univ CARL@SCU.BITNET -------