lclarke@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Lawrence Clarke) (12/14/90)
Conner Peripherals Inc. 3081 Zanker Road San Jose, CA 95134 (408) 456-4500 Markets a 510 MB Hard Disk Drive (Internal) SCSI or IDE interface for $1295.00 . From InfoWorld Magazine Nov 5/90 Page 34 states ... "At the high end is the Summit series, with half-height 3 1/2" drive that provides 510MB of formateed storage. Available in either SCSI (Model CP-3500) or IDE (Model CP-3504), the drive features an average seek time of 12 milliseconds. In addition, th drive features a 256K segmented cache buffer that is said to provide nearly instantaneous access to frequently used data." Any one know if this drive can be used inside the NeXTstation ? It's SCSI 3 1/2" half-height, but is it SCSI-1 or SCSI-2 ? Does the internal drive on the NeXTstation care whether it's 1 or 2 ? /==============================================================\ | lclarke@questor.wimsey.bc.ca | c/o TRIUMF Operations | | Compuserve: 70441,1776 | 4004 Wesbrook Mall | | Phone: +1 604 275-5902 | Vancouver, British Columbia | | FAX: +1 604 275-4184 | Canada V6T 2A3 | \==============================================================/
herndon@sctc.com (William R. Herndon) (12/14/90)
lclarke@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Lawrence Clarke) writes: >Conner Peripherals Inc. >3081 Zanker Road >San Jose, CA 95134 >(408) 456-4500 > >Markets a 510 MB Hard Disk Drive (Internal) SCSI or IDE interface for >$1295.00 . From InfoWorld Magazine Nov 5/90 Page 34 states ... > I too saw this article on comp.sys.next and in INFOWORLD. I have a question, though. Aren't Conner drives supposed to have a terrible reputation for breakdown? I once read a comparison of the MTBF stats on a number of manufacturers drives, and the Connor drives were at about 20,000 hours, whereas drives by companies like Maxtor came in around 150,000. 20,000 hours is less than three years of continuous operation, which doesn't seem like a lot. I know, I know, I'm not supposed to pay attention to such statistics, but when companies like HP and Fujitsu are offering 5 year warrenties on their drives, buying from Conner seems somewhat risky. - Max ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- William R. Herndon Secure Computing Technology Corp. The opinions expressed are mine, ALL MINE! HEH, HEH, herndon@sctc.com HEH, HEH!!! (612) 482-7431
smb@datran2.uunet (Steven M. Boker) (12/14/90)
In article <wcL6T1w163w@questor.wimsey.bc.ca>, lclarke@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Lawrence Clarke) writes: > > Markets a 510 MB Hard Disk Drive (Internal) SCSI or IDE interface for > $1295.00 . From InfoWorld Magazine Nov 5/90 Page 34 states ... > > "At the high end is the Summit series, with half-height 3 1/2" drive that > provides 510MB of formateed storage. Available in either SCSI (Model I called Conner and got the spec sheets from them. It looks pretty good, but won't ship until "at least April" according to the Conner rep I spoke with. I would expect that this announcement will put some downward pressure on the drive prices come spring. Steve. -- #====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====# # Steve Boker # Algorist: Adept at calculations -OED # # datran2!smb@uunet.uu.net # En Chaos Veritas -SMB # #====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#