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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.arch,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: query: new disk drive for VAX
Message-ID: <3531@phri.UUCP>
Date: 5 Oct 88 14:38:32 GMT
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In article <4198@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
> Given about $20,000 to $30,000 to spend on a disk drive [...] can I do
> better than buying an RA81 from DEC?

	Having had an RA-81 for 4 or 5 years, I can say with some assurance
that just about anything else would be better.  RA-81s are expensive, slow,
and unreliable.  What less could you want from a disk drive?  For $30k, you
should be able to buy a couple of Fuji SuperEagles and a good Emulex
controller, or any of several other high-quality drives from Fuji or NEC.
If you prefer to buy American, CDC has several good products.
-- 
Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
{allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!roy -or- phri!roy@uunet.uu.net
"The connector is the network"