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From: keithe@tekgvs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Fast Hard Disks
Message-ID: <2337@tekgvs.TEK.COM>
Date: Tue, 2-Jun-87 17:31:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: tekgvs.2337
Posted: Tue Jun  2 17:31:42 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jun-87 02:37:54 EDT
References: <2157@husc6.UUCP>
Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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Keywords: Disks

In article <2157@husc6.UUCP> chamoun@lownlab.harvard.edu (Nassib Chamoun) writes:
>
>I'm looking for large and fast hard disks to run on 286/386 machines.  Size
>could be anywhere between 80 to 300 MB, and average access time ranging from 5
>to 15 msec.  I basically want a hard disk/controller combination that screams.

That isn't the only thing that's gonna' scream: so will your purchasing
department (actual or "spousal," as the case may be)! The Maxtor 2190 costs
us (Tek) $2400 and I think we get some kind of quantity price break (don't
quote me - that's just a number I heard in the hallway) for 190 Megabytes
(unformatted) in an ST506/412 compatible drive. It's something like 28 msec
access time.

And don't forget the $120 for V-Feature Deluxe (from Golden Bow Systems) so
you can talk to your megabytes (at a slight decrease access time; I had to go
from a 2:1 interleave to a 3:1 when I installed my 2190/V-Feature combination).
Oh, yeah - most controllers can oly talk to 1024 cylinders. The 2190 has over
1200 cylinders. So I ended up with "only" 133 megabytes of disk storage.

keith (backups - what are backups?) ericson