Are these the disks for me?

[George Robbins]

In article <411 at brl-smoke.ARPA> dms at mit-hermes.arpa writes:

>The 3.0 MB/S CDC drive has the same MTBF as the eagle and eagle II. In
>addition, its seek time it 16 ms average, compared with 18 ms for the
>eagle. All in all, it seems like a better drive than the eagle II.

I suggest you talk to some of the people who do third-party drive repair
and refurbishment.  My understanding is that CDC has a pretty mixed
reputation and are now screwing themselves in the area of replacement
parts availability and cost.  Of course, you can always send your drive
back to CDC for repairs :-)...

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