query: new disk drive for VAX

[F. L. Charles Seeger III]

In article <10199 at eddie.MIT.EDU> nessus at athena.MIT.EDU (Doug Alan) writes:
|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?

Performance, of course.  The new SMD drives and controllers offer
3.0 MBps interfaces (24 Mbps).  I belive that these 5.25" drives are
limited to about 10 Mbps.  This is important on modern fast machines,
but the VAX in question may be too old and slow to qualify.

Regards,
Chuck