Non-Sun External HD for SPARCstation?

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2 total messages Started by Leigh Engelhart Wed, 07 May 1997 00:00

#139

Author: Leigh Engelhart
Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 00:00

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We badly need more storage capacity on a Sun SPARCstation 2.  Sun's
drives look pricey to someone more used to the PC world.  Do we really
need to stay locked in to Sun?  Any reason why we couldn't use some
other brand of Fast/Wide SCSI-2 Disk Drive?  Any specific suggestions or
recommendations?

Leigh Engelhart

Re: Non-Sun External HD for SPARCstation?

#140

Author: Christopher E. Cramer
Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 00:00

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Leigh Engelhart wrote:
> 
> We badly need more storage capacity on a Sun SPARCstation 2.  Sun's
> drives look pricey to someone more used to the PC world.  Do we really
> need to stay locked in to Sun?  Any reason why we couldn't use some
> other brand of Fast/Wide SCSI-2 Disk Drive?  Any specific suggestions or
> recommendations?
> 
> Leigh Engelhart

The only reason I can think to stay with Sun drives is that a Sun
peripheral is automatically covered under the same maintenance contract
(if any) that the workstation it is connected to is under.  This is
helpful in the case of adding disks to an important server.

-Chris

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