JFHARRIS@MTUS5.BITNET (James F. Harrison) (01/26/91)
I am a physics student who intends to buy a NextDimension. I want a LOT of storage space available (for animation) that I can readily access, and I have decided to achieve this by getting a 1GB WORM drive this year and a big hard drive next year. Two Questions: 1: Do you think this is a sensible way to start? If I got a big hard drive this year, I would also need to get a tape backup system, which (from the funding available) would mean something like 760MB total hard storage now plus a 2GB tape drive. This would be a fine system, except that I would still want to get a WORM drive next year, leaving me with a $600 SCSI tape drive to sell. Besides that, I don't think I would get another hard drive next year if I followed that path, leaving me with 770MB rather than the total of 1.5GB I would have otherwise had. If I go ahead and get the WORM drive, I'll be stuck for a year with memory-intensive computer that has only 100MB of ERASABLE memory avail- able. So which would you choose? 2: Is there a WORM drive you would recommend, and could I stick one inside a NextCube? Please include prices for the drives and disks. I think I'll cheat and ask a third question: Is there an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) that you would recommend for a NextCube? Please include price. Thanks -Jim Harrison