Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 11:33:52 -0700 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4GB Drives Message-ID: <199508311833.LAA00326@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 31 Aug 1995 10:33:11 PDT." <199508311733.KAA12130@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
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Does anyone know who sells PCI NCR controllers in the Bay Area? Also, Rod are you now a re-seller for the Matrox Meteor Capture PCI board? Tnks, Amancio >>> "Rodney W. Grimes" said: > > > > > > So Rodney, which 4 GB Drive would you buy? > > None, I use stacks of 535MB drives for what ever capacity I need (easy > to do when you buy them in the 10 paks and use NCR controllers and have > unlimited space for them (I don't use cases, it's all on table tops :-)). > > > So, 4GB would be 8 drives, and 2 or 4 controllers. Let me see, > 8 * 195 + 2 * 72 == 1704 for a subsystem that can produce over > 32MB/s of read data :-). > > Oh, and my distributor just called me, I have new pricing on Micropolis > 3243 and 3243W drives, $1200 and $1287. > > I also now have avaliable to me 60 units of Quantum Capella 2.2 G Wide > drives at $830 each. > > Price on non wide Capella is still sitting at $800.00. > > -- > Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com > Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD >
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