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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russell Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Recommendations for a 300 Mbyte SCSI drive?
Message-ID: <1990Sep21.145805.13022@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 21 Sep 90 14:58:05 GMT
References: <1990Sep18.220215.10423@arcturus.uucp>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russell Poffenberger)
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In article <1990Sep18.220215.10423@arcturus.uucp> evil@arcturus.uucp (Wade Guthrie) writes:
>Well, the subject pretty much says it. . .I'm looking for a 300 Mbyte
>(probably more like 330 or 350) disk drive for my 386.  It must
>be SCSI and it's gotta be fast (I'm expecting 15ms average access give
>or take) cause I'm gonna be using UNIX.  I'm looking for something that 
>is very reliable and, of course, not too hard on the pocketbook.  
>Computer Shopper has lots of CDC (Seagate) Wrens on the order of $1500 
>to $1700, but I know other manufacturers have drives of this calibre.  
>How about Fuji or others?
>
>Any suggestions?

IMHO, I find CDC Wrens very reliable. I am using an Adaptec AHA5142B controller
anbd a Wren IV. I get about 15ms access, and > 1.3Mbytes/sec transfer rate off
the disk. > 3Mbytes/s from cache.

The newer Fuji's are OK too, but I am most familiar with the 2263SA which is
>600Mbytes, bigger (and more expensive) than you asked for.


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