Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!cadre!pitt!amanue!oglvee!jr From: jr@oglvee.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Need a 60M to 80M hard disk for a *truck* Message-ID: <277@oglvee.UUCP> Date: 6 Sep 88 20:44:37 GMT Organization: Oglevee Computer Systems, Connellsville, Pa Lines: 26 I've been asked for a recommendation for a hard disk for a HazMat team to haul around in their truck. They need something like 60M - 80M, but power is *not* a particular problem -- they have a generator in their truck that is plenty beefy enough for any computer. Hard drives cause enough grief just sitting on desktops; the thought of one bouncing around in a truck that has to tear off to the hills to respond to some derailment or truck accident sends shivers up my spine. I've told them that a standard off-the-shelf hard disk probably isn't rugged enough. Alas, most portables with hard disks come in at 40M or less. Does anybody have any recommendations for a rugged hard disk with this capacity? Is there something perhaps made for the military that would work? Is there a way of ruggedizing a standard hard disk with say voice coil -- and would that work? Anybody actually have experience with hard disks in trucks? [Calling all geologists ...] The thought just occurs to me that the most interesting idea here might be a WORM -- except that I don't know if their budget will withstand this, & I don't know if the software they need to run will run on a WORM. Any help appreciated. -- Jim Rosenberg pitt Oglevee Computer Systems >--!amanue!oglvee!jr 151 Oglevee Lane cgh Connellsville, PA 15425 #include