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From: rfg@NCD.COM (Ron Guilmette)
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Subject: Wanted: opinions about Fujitsu (Was: Which disk to buy?)
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Date: 11 Aug 90 02:23:14 GMT
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I'm glad the subject of which disk to buuy came up.

I'm a software engineer, and a contractor.  I've been thinking about
getting a some really nice machien for home (e.g. a Sparc SLC).

Now the question is "What drive?"

Looking in some local free publications in which people advertise all
sort of bargain basement hardware & such I see that it seems that I can
get very good prices on Fujitsu SCSI drives.

In particular, I saw a 778 MB (2263SA) drive advertised for as low as $1880
and a 389 MB (2249) drive for only $1200 (SCSI version).

The advertisements say that these drives come with 5 year warranty, and
that they have an MTBF of 200,000 hours.  That all sounds pretty good to me.

Is there some catch I should know about?  Are these good drives?  Is there
any reason whatsoever that I should not be able to just plug & play one of
these drives (as the boot device) with a Sparc SLC?

-- 

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