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From: sysjohn@aurora.physics.utoronto.ca (John Chee Wah)
Subject: Re: SCSI disk sources
Message-ID: <1991May10.065509.23285@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
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Date: Fri, 10 May 1991 06:55:09 GMT

In article <1991Apr29.161348.373@rice.edu> guscus@katzo.rice.edu (gustavo e scuseria) writes:
# In article <1991Apr22.191208.796@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu> steven@pacific.csl.uiuc.edu writes:
# >We're in the market for a 1+GB SCSI disk and an Exabyte 8200.  So far we have
# >quotes on the Fujitsu M2266, the WREN VII, and an HP (I don't have the model
# >number at hand.)  Any notable observations on these or other drives would be
# >appreciated -- things such as noise, reliability, and performance.
# >
# 
# I have a bunch of Seagate wren7's and they have proven very 
# reliable and produce little noise. 
# We run very intensive IO applications and the performance of the drives 
# has been excellent too.
# You may also want to check the new wren8 that started shipping a 
# few weeks ago. I believe these are 2.4 Gbytes drives
# (2 Gbytes formatted) that will sell for approximately 5,000$. 
# Last time I bought wren7's I paid 5,695$ for TWO of them in a shoe-box 
# including power supply and 150$ for an extended 5yr warranty. 
# The wren7's are 1.2 Gb unformatted and 1.0 Gb formatted. 
# The wren8's should be similar $/mbyte but they support SCSI II and are faster.
# 
# BTW, I would very much like to know if the new SNAKE HP 700 series machines
# will support these 3rd party disk-drives. SCSI is supposed to be an
# industry standard, but you never know if the vendor will add some
# propietary stuff that will make it impossible to plug anything but
# their own products.

I have added a Fujitsu 2266 as an additional disk (seems to be quite
fast on the HP compare with other machines) and Python DAT as a
replacement for HP DAT on a 720 and they seem to work just fine.  Will
check for compatibility of 3rd party drives/DAT/CD when we get a
machine with HP DAT tapes and CDs.

# --
# Gustavo E. Scuseria              | guscus@katzo.rice.edu
# Department of Chemistry          |
# Rice University                  | office: (713) 527-4082
# Houston, Texas 77251-1892        | fax   : (713) 285-5155


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