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- From: migieger@delos.stgt.sub.org (Michael Giegerich)
- Subject: Re: SCSI-2 tape and disk drives recommendations
- References: <JOSHUA5.92Aug25222622@csa.bu.edu> <mybnm2l.kwan@netcom.com>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 23:19:56 GMT
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Delos Stuttgart, Germany
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.231956.18359@delos.stgt.sub.org>
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- >Knowing someone from Conner, Maxtor and Seagate, and getting some honest
- >feedback once in a while, I would say go for Maxtor. They've the most
- >experience in making 5 1/4" large capacity SCSI (>300Meg.).
- > One of my housemate use to run torture test in his QA lab (i.e.
- >random read/write + low level format on a 7/24 basis). Never had a prob. with
- >Maxtor. He kill several Seagate within a week. Not all Maxtor models are good.
- >I would say stick with the field proven one, not the brand new model.
- >Generally, go for 5 1/4" disk from Maxtor, and you should be OK.
- >Fujitsu, might have some air-flow + heat control prob. especially on their
- >3.5" disk.
- >Seagate basically is a trash, not worth to mention.
- >Micropolis is a decent drive too, dunno much about it.
- >
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- I saw 100 and 200 MB Conner SCSI-drives in several DEC workstations.
- One largely used 420 MB SCSI-drive (DEC, Sun) is the 1480N Seagate drive.
- I'm not sure about the following, but I believe DEC is using also Micro-
- polis drives for sizes over 1 GB,
- If this helps...
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- Michael Giegerich
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