Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!brunix!rca From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Full height SCSI disk housings Message-ID: <52952@brunix.UUCP> Date: 12 Oct 90 02:38:09 GMT References: Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Reply-To: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science Lines: 20 In article lane@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (Christopher Lane) writes: >As part of our eventual integration of the new NeXT slabs, we may want to >remove some of our 330MB Maxtors (original NeXT disks) and place them in >external housings. I'm aware of Pacific Micro's HDE product which costs >approximately $325 per disk (two disks per housing) at developer prices. Is >anyone aware of (and preferably had experience with) any cheaper full size >SCSI disk housings, e.g. from the Macintosh third party market. If it doesn't have to look nice, then get some issue of computer shopper and look for externa cases for PC-compatibles. They have usually a power supply built in. The cable work should not be too difficult. And these are a lot cheaper but less stylish than the HDE cases. Ronald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." Bernhard Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet