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From: lepreau%mancos.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Jay Lepreau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: 3rd party SCSI disc's for a 400t
Keywords: SCSI disc, 400t
Message-ID: <1990Dec6.144113.13659@hellgate.utah.edu>
Date: 6 Dec 90 21:41:12 GMT
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About a year ago we discovered one can get HP 660MB SCSI's (HP97548)
with a 5 year warranty from distributors, for cheap (< $2200). We have
bought lots of them, stuck them in cans, and they've been great.  HP
OEM's lots of these to other vendors.  To buy the same disk mech from HP
directly, in an expandable can, is the C2213 and lists at $6375.  (The
2213 does have different firmware which makes Unix reads go faster.)  We
are using a couple on a 400t right now (with our BSD unix, not HP-UX).
Other manufacturers (Hitachi, Fujitsu) are now in the game for about the
same price and terms, but we haven't tried them.

You can also get a 1 GB (formatted) HP SCSI, the HP97549. It definitely
is SCSI-II.  The 660's are still a little cheaper per byte.
(Since we can do disk striping/concatenation, the smaller disk size
doesn't prevent us from having bigger filesystems, plus we get an extra arm.)