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From: tneale@aeras.UUCP (Tom Neale)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Synchronous SCSI *Disks*
Message-ID: <364@aeras.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jul 89 01:24:44 GMT
References: <29254@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: tneale@aeras.UUCP (Tom Neale)
Organization: Arix Corporation, San Jose, CA.
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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?

I'm not sure how you rate "inexpensive" but most of the newer high
capacity (380 MB to 1.2 GB) 5.25" drives are sync SCSI capable.  Also,
the new 3.5" drives (200 MB and up) seem to have this feature.  Yes, the
drives are available and are shipping.  The SCSI spec says that sync
should run at 4.0 MB/sec.  Some drives will go faster.

To an OEM or system integrator these drives usually cost $3.50 to
$5.00 per megabyte.  You can usually double or triple that by the time
it gets to the end user.
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