dwhite@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu (02/01/91)
Since requesting information on Fujitsu hard disks, I have received many responses. In addition to the responses I have previously posted, here are more responses: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- David, We use a number of the Fujitsu 680MB (formatted) SCSI drives here with no problems so far. I have one on my MicroVAX and it gets heavy use. The drive makes some noise when the heads move so it's not for a quiet office, but the drive seems to be rugged otherwise (and nice and fast). Joe D. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm happy with the ones I've put in so far, but there's still less than a year of combined experience to go on. They are a bit noisier than most others, very sharp "rattle" when doing random seeks. -- Steve Nuchia South Coast Computing Services (713) 964-2462 "Could we find tools that would teach their own use, we should have discovered something truly beyond price." Socrates, in Plato's Republic --------------------------------------------------------------------------- David, I don't have experience with their SCSI drives, but based on 7 years experience with their SMD and SMD/E drives, I can thoroughly recommend them. They are beautifly engineered pieces of equipment that I personnaly have never ever had a problem with. I used 4 of their 168MB SMD drives for 6 years, still running, 24 hours a day 7 days a week. The 337MB SMD/Es have run for 2 years non stop (8 of them) and the 1GB Swallow SMD/E drives (4 of them) have also run for 2 years ok. I cannot comment on their post sales engineering because non of ours ever broke. Their pre-sales and technical engineering has always been first class. Someday, all disks drives will be made this way..... Martin Martin Cryer, Unisys Workstations, SLC USA All opinions expressed my own, not that of Unisys Corp etc etc.... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- David White | Internet: dwhite@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu 5-105 Knudsen Hall | BITNET: white@uclaph UCLA Dept. of Physics | DECnet: uclapp::dwhite Los Angeles, CA 90024-1547 | Phone: 213-825-2259 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------