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Article #374Re: Need info about CDC Wren hard disks
From: neese
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1989 14:47
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1989 14:47
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>Rumor has it that the CDC "Wren" disk is SCSI, is 720MB, and is in the
>neighborhood of $3000. My questions:
> 1) How/where do I order them? I've struck out looking
> through trade mags & The Computer Shopper.
> 2) What's the catch here? Large capacity, less than $5/MB,
> SCSI ... it sounds too good to be true. Was this price
> a short-lived promotion? Do the disks break immediately?
> Do they make a lot of noise? If you have some of these
> units, please give me testimony about their quality.
> I am djd@cs.columbia.edu.
I have seen many of these being used, and have heard of no complaints
about them. Once you enable the read ahead in the drive (it comes
turned off by default) the drives really scream.
Roy Neese
Adaptec Central Field Applications Engineer
UUCP @ {texbell,attctc}!cpe!adaptex!neese
merch!adaptex!neese
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