query: new disk drive for VAX

Doug Alan nessus at athena.mit.edu
Thu Oct 6 05:18:59 AEST 1988


In article <3531 at phri.UUCP> roy at phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:

> RA-81s are expensive, slow, and unreliable.  What less could you
> want from a disk drive?  For $30k, you should be able to buy a
> couple of Fuji SuperEagles and a good Emulex controller, or any of
> several other high-quality drives from Fuji or NEC.

Why spend big bux on SuperEagles when you can get 800 Meg, high speed
5.25-inch Winchesters these days for $3,300 each?

|>oug /\lan
   (or nessus at athena
       nessus at mit-eddie.uucp)



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