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From: darrylo@sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI drive recommendation
Date: 11 Jul 1995 01:12:48 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard / Center for Primal Scream Therapy
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Phil Staub (phils@satori.tv.tek.com) wrote:
> I'm looking at the Hard Drives International ad in the June Computer
> Shopper, and the choices I seem to have are
>
> Quantum Seems to be quite expensive for the class of
> drive it is.
Does it have to be 1GB? One of the "best buys" in SCSI drives
right now seems to be the Quantum Lightning 730 (~699MB formatted).
Street prices are below $250, or around 35.8 cents/megabyte.
Unfortunately, it has only a 2 year warranty, and so I don't know what
the reliability is like (I recently bought one, and so I'm going to find
out what it's like ;-). MTBF is supposedly around 300,000 hours, and
the basic specs are:
Typical Seek Times (ms)
Average Seek: 11
Track-to-Track: 4
Full Stroke: 19
Average Rotational Latency (ms): 6.7
Rotational Speed (RPM): 4,500
-- Darryl Okahata
Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com
DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not
constitute the support, opinion or policy of Hewlett-Packard or of the
little green men that have been following him all day.