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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Upgrading a system
Keywords: RLL or ESDI
Message-ID: <2550@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 9 Dec 90 16:11:24 GMT
References: <889@wshb.csms.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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  I have run Segate drives for four years, the last wo years RLL. Any
drive manufacturer has some drives which last forever, and some which
die relatively young. I think there's a year warrantee, and those which
live that long usually are solid.

  I also am now running a bunch of refurb Maxtor drives. There are not
rebuilt used, but failed QC once and corrected. I have been paying $899
for the 320MB drives. They only have a 90 day warrantee, so you have to
have faith in statistics (if it runs that long it should run years), but
they are great for the money.

  I really like the CompuAdd ESDI controller, not because of the cache,
although that's nice, but because they work well. We have a bunch at work.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me