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From: chapman@fornax.uucp (John Chapman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Cheap SCSI disks for Cheap Sun's?
Message-ID: <268@fornax.uucp>
Date: Sat, 25-Apr-87 23:32:53 EDT
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Posted: Sat Apr 25 23:32:53 1987
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>       Would somebody summarize about prices for disk drives, tape drives
>       etc to go with SUN and post or email to me.
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> Yes now that the LIST price of a diskless node Sun 3/50 with a SCSI port
> is $5k, and if you have access to getting a volume discount, it goes to under
> $4k!  The problem is finding inexpensive SCSI disks to go with it.
> 
> Does anyone know of any alternatives available that are comparable to the
> prices for Disks for Mac's or IBM PC's?  I'd like something in the 140 Meg
> range......
> 

It seems to me that someone in this group posted a message saying that
the SUN scsi controller was an Adaptec 4000 series board.  These are
available for $135 and will control two st506/412 drives; the number
of heads, tracks etc. are programmable.  So for $135 + price of a disk
from the PC world (e.g. 70mb, 28ms for $900) you have a scsi drive.
Of course you have to get someone to format the drive and put the
system on it for you but if you already have SUNs around that shouldn't
be too hard.
john

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