From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 31 11:34:27 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id LAA16347 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 11:34:27 -0700 Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA16334 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 11:34:24 -0700 Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.v-site.net [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA00326 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 11:33:53 -0700 Message-Id: <199508311833.LAA00326@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.2 7/18/95 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4GB Drives In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 31 Aug 1995 10:33:11 PDT." <199508311733.KAA12130@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 11:33:52 -0700 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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 >