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From: km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg)
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Subject: Low Cost IPI-2 Drives?
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Date: 1 Feb 91 16:34:45 GMT
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The price of reasonably fast SCSI drives has really come down. 1.2GB
drives are well under $3K. However, the preferred drive interface on
Sun's 490 servers is IPI-2, and on that platform the IPI driver and 
interface is much higher in performance than Sun's scsi.

So far, I haven't seen any IPI drives that compete in cost with the SCSI.
The Seagate 8" Saber drives which Sun uses cost twice as much as the low
cost 5.25" SCSI's. These Sabers come in IPI,SCSI, and SMD versions all of
which are expensive.

Has anyone seen any sign of lower cost IPI-2 drives that I missed? In 
particular are there any 5.25" IPI-2 drives?


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