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From: jbs@fenchurch.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal)
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Subject: Re: query: new disk drive for VAX
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Date: 6 Oct 88 18:59:39 GMT
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In article <18529@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> seeger@beach.cis.ufl.edu (F. L. Charles Seeger III) writes:
>|Why spend big bux on SuperEagles when you can get 800 Meg, high speed
>|5.25-inch Winchesters these days for $3,300 each?
>Performance, of course.  The new SMD drives and controllers offer
>3.0 MBps interfaces (24 Mbps).  I belive that these 5.25" drives are
>limited to about 10 Mbps.

Not true.  Maxtor offers a version of its drive which supports
synchronous SCSI and claims 4MB/s transfers.  I do not believe it
costs much (any?) more than the slower (15 Mb/s, I believe) ESDI
version.

Jeff Siegal