Experience with Hard Disks wanted

[Charles T. Fulton]

This is to ask if you have experience with the following disk drives, and,
if so, to solicit your opinions on them. I am seeking to install a disk
drive on a SUN 3/140 WORKSTATION, equipped with a SCSI-3 Host Bus Adapter
(SUN part # 501-1217).  Currently I have two estimates from different
vendors as follows:

  1. CDC Wren VI, Model 94191, 766 Mb unformatted, 676 Mb formatted, $ 3095
  2. Hitachi SCSI Disk Dr, Model 515C-78, 661 Mb formatted (5 1/4 in Dr.)
     $ 3025

Both quotes include shoe box enclosure, power supply and cables.  The CDC
Disk Dr has been guaranteed by the vendor to be installable and compatible
with my SUN 3/140 running SUN-OS 4.0.3 , but I am not sure about the
Hitachi. The Hitachi appears to be very reliable and perhaps newer
technology. I would be grateful for any opinions comparing these disk
drives.  (I currently have a diskless 3/140 connected to a network of 10
SUN workstations, and I will be connected directly to our campus network
once a disk drive is selected.) 

Charles Fulton, Florida Inst Tech