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- From: senseman@ricky.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman)
- Subject: Should I Get a Barracuda for My Indigo?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.192526.9440@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Keywords: disk drive
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- Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:25:26 GMT
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- SGI machines in general and Indigos in particular seem to work
- well with disk drives from Seagate. Now Seagate has introduced
- a really interesting drive -- the BARRACUDA -- 2.1 GB in a 3 1/2
- inch form factor. It should be much faster than the IBM drive
- SGI is currently shipping since it comes with a 1,024KB cache,
- giving it an 8 ms access time :-) Best of all, Seagate has priced
- them very competitively ($2,495 in OEM quantitites).
-
- Has anyone (Dave?) had a chance to look at the ST12550 (Barracuda)
- and/or the other members of the family (i.e. ST12400, ST31200)?
-
- If someone did buy an ST12550, and put it in an R4K Indigo,
- could the Indigo's SCSI contoller take advantage of the drive's
- support for FAST and FAST/WIDE SCSI-2?
-
- Thanks.
-
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- David M. Senseman, Ph.D. | A man who has never gone to school may steal
- (senseman@lonestar.utsa.edu) | from a freight car; but if he has a university
- Division of Life Sciences | education, he may steal the whole railroad.
- UT San Antonio | Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
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