eric@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Eric Fielding) (04/23/89)
I asked about disk drives a few weeks ago, and got a few replies. Meanwhile, our sales rep from Aviv sent us a quote for their Maxtor 8760S, the SCSI version of the Maxtor drives that we are now using on our VAXstation 3200s. I don't know if I should mention prices here, but suffice it to say that one can get about double the disk space per dollar compared to the DEC 300 MB disk. We are placing an order on Monday, so we might even get it before our DECstation 3100. (BTW, they also have an 8mm drive for DS 3100s). Oh, and about the 'standard' configuration complaints, we did not get too much advice from our DEC sales rep when we were ordering it because we knew more about it from this newsgroup than they did. Not too surprising for a very new machine, I suppose. Our decision was to go ahead and get more than the 100 MB disk that we ordered with it to avoid the hassles involved in getting the system installed in a small local disk and larger NFS disk, which several people have said is a real pain. ++Eric Fielding eric@geology.tn.cornell.edu