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- From: jim@mivax.mc.duke.edu (James D Dryfoos - Systems)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: RF35 problems
- Message-ID: <15AUG199221363402@mivax.mc.duke.edu>
- Date: 16 Aug 92 02:36:00 GMT
- References: <6044@npri6.npri.com> <1992Aug15.131155.18547@tc.cornell.edu>
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- Organization: Duke University Medical Center
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- >>Anyone that has attempted to order an RF35 recently knows there is a
- >>120 day lead time for this disk drive. My salesperson attempted to
- >>explain this by saying Digital was "integrating new technology into the
- >>drive", but the reality is the RF35 has serious reliability problems.
- >>I know sites that are experiencing RF35 nightmares right now.
- >>If you're ordering a disk, I strongly advise you consider a disk other
- >>than the RF35 or RF352.
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- >I have two RF35's that have been running just fine thank you for three
- >months. Delivery time from order was about three weeks. Fastest disk
- >I ever saw - when booting a whole bunch of satellites from an RF35
- >system disk on a VAX 4000/500, the RF35 sustains an average of 85 I/O's
- >per second for about 30 minutes during the boot, which is about three
- >times what a Wren VII previously used for the job could do.
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- >What evidence do you have that there's something wrong with the RF35?
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- Ditto that for the RF352.
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