Request for WORM drive information
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Wed Jan 4 04:01:51 AEST 1989
rex!barad at decwrl.dec.com (Herb Barad) writes:
> We are in the market for a WORM drive for our Sun 3's. Our budget is
> limited, so we are considering a 800 MByte drive
>
> I talked to a guy from Laser Optical Technology (Santa Cruz) and he quoted
> a price of $3,995 (educational price). He also said that cartridges are
> about $250/ea.
When I was shopping for an optical disk for the Sun, I wanted one that
caches to magnetic disk and that looked to the user like a disk, and not a
tape.... I ended up buying the Maxtor QT-800 with software from a company
in Virginia called ATS (Advanced Technology Systems), POC Dan Madish....
All together I paid almost $10,000 (drive, software, cables, 1 media, and
VME SCSI controller)... The cost of the drive was about half of the
total.... I bought more dual-sided media directly from a distributor
for $125 GSA (government) price... The system works well (so far)....
ATS uses the same software to drive all sorts of optical disks, including
the Sony Jukebox....
I hope this helps....
Brian
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