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From: george@wombat.UUCP (George Scolaro)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Synchronous SCSI *Disks*
Message-ID: <307@wombat.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jul 89 15:30:49 GMT
References: <29254@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: george@wombat.UUCP (George Scolaro)
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In article <29254@ames.arc.nasa.gov> lamaster@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Hugh LaMaster) writes:
>I keep seeing all these ads for synchronous SCSI controllers with speeds
>in the 4-5 MB/sec. range.  But I don't see the ads for 4-5 MB/sec.
>synchronous SCSI disks.  Are there any reasonably inexpensive general
>purpose high capacity etc. synchronous SCSI disks out there with speeds of,
>well, what is available?

Hitachi have a new-ish drive: DK515C-78 (660 meg 5.25 in). The quoted
storage is in mbytes (formatted of course). We checked a while ago and the
660 meg drive was around $2500 or so. It supports sync.  scsi at 4
mbytes/sec, and sustained transfer off the media of 2.5 megabytes/sec
(impressive). All I know about the drive is from technical docs. I haven't
bought one yet, but plan to in the near future, for a home brew NS32532
system with an Adaptec AIC6250 SCSI chip (which supports sync scsi), I want
MORE SPEED!  BTW the drive also supports old/slow scsi at 1.5mbytes/sec.
-- 
George Scolaro
george@wombat
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