third-party SCSI drives for 3/60? (summ

[Steve Clark]

Thanks for the responses.  As it turned out, I ended up being under fairly
tight time constraints, and so had to put in a purchase order before my
request even showed up on the local news :-).  Here's a summary:

Cranel INC.
The Peripheral People
510G East Wilson Bridge Road
Worthington, OH 43085
614-433-0045
attn: Robert Hahn
	"We have been using there subsystems for about 6 months now
	and have seen no problems ... They seen to have about the
	best pricing you can get and sun will maintain there
	equipment for you."
	- Robert Henkel <henkel at cis.ohio-state.edu>

Peripherals Design, Inc., Atlanta, GA
Tel: (404) 263-0067
Fax: (404) 263-0405
	170 Mb shoebox	$2390
	- installed by vendor
	- university discount
	- From: gt-eedsp!jensen at gatech.edu (P. Allen Jensen)

Software Associcates
860 Broad St.
Emmaus, Pennsylvania  18048
(215)967-6615
	141 Mb artecon shoebox 			$2800
	650 Mb artecon SCSI disk subsystem	$9745
	- this is a Sun-clone: SCSI interface; internally ESDI
	"... I have been very satisfied with the disk I bought
	and yes I would do it again."
	- brittain at aiu1.IC.ORNL.GOV (Carlton Ray Brittain)

Tenex
Toronto?
	WrenIII (155MB)		Can$2475
	WrenIV (300MB)		Can$2775
		(latter is a bare drive with a SCSI card)
	"They didn't come with the right cables and we had lots of
	trouble getting them going, but they kept on sending down
	their technical people to get it right."
	- Peter Marshall <peter%hadrian.uwo.ca at CORNELLC.ccs.cornell.edu>

Uninet, Santa Ana, CA
(714)547-3000
	300 Mb shoebox	$2900.
	600 Mb shoebox	$4400.
	'All shoeboxes are class A certified and are "plug-and-play"'
	- uunet!zardoz!neil (Neil Gorsuch)

Unison Information Systems LTD.
9 High Street
Westboro, MA 01581
(508)898-0072
	141 Mb shoebox (internally ESDI)	$2890
	141 Mb shoebox (straight SCSI)		$2352
	according to Unison, the latter disk gives slightly
	higher performance; the price premium is simply for
	complete Sun clone-ness.  Both are shipped formatted.
	"I don't know if I would recommend Unison though, they seem
	pretty fly-by-night.  There are other companies that will
	give 1 year warranties and such..."
	- srs!matt at uhura.cc.rochester.edu	(Matt Goheen)
	Unison gives a 90 day DOA replacement policy and
	a 1 year warrantee.


-steve

Steve Clark
National Institute for Standards and Technology (formerly NBS)
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