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- From: bruce@camb.com (Barton F. Bruce)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: CDrom Drives
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.034436.40047@camb.com>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 03:44:36 EDT
- References: <1992Nov4.171029.2099@cnsvax.uwec.edu>
- Organization: Cambridge Computer Associates, Inc.
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- In article <1992Nov4.171029.2099@cnsvax.uwec.edu>, drumm@cnsvax.uwec.edu (Danny) writes:
- >
- > I'm looking for some good cdrom drives we can hang off our infoserver.
- > I would appreciate learning about 3rd party cd drives.
-
- The DEC rrd-42 is a Sony CDU-541. In the back of PC Mag there are multiple
- dealers selling cdrom drives buried in with whatever else they sell.
-
- All I have seen have been in the $410 - $420 range. This is not as
- desirable a drive as the CDU-561 that is faster and does multi-sessions
- (for Photo-CD), but the 561 isn't readily available yet.
-
- Sony will have a slower SCSI drive in the future that is priced more
- like their non-scsi CDU-31A the cow box pc company sells for $225.
-
- Sony official distributors won't be anywhere near as cheap as ~$415 for
- a CDU-541 - probably ask $450 wholesale in small volume.
-
- A (BIG) National PC distributor that is NOT a Sony distributor (grey
- market...) has had the CDU-541 in their catalog for years at $402.
- Those street prices in the magazines are very good.
-
- Stick them into a LARGE multi-frontbay tower case sans-motherboard.
-