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From: bb@wjh12.UUCP (byer)
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Subject: Hard disks for PC; recommendations?
Message-ID: <484@wjh12.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-Jun-84 12:45:17 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 19 12:45:17 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 20-Jun-84 01:03:52 EDT
Organization: Harvard University PSR, Cambridge MA
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Howdy,

Do any of you have experiences/recommendations on `real'
hard DISKS (vs. 100+ ms. access `Hard Floppies') for
the ibm PC clan?

I am especially interested in the removable cartridge
drives (no, old-timers, rk03's won't cut it).  Names
I've heard of are Iomega, DMA, Syquest.  I've seen
specs on the first two, and, if true, they are acceptable.

Of related interest are controllers/interfaces to the PC;
especially those with performance as a goal (sector/track
buffers, overlappable seeks, etc.).

I am keen on this type of drive because it avoids the need
to do backups onto floppy (ugh!), and permits use of a NICE
Unix feature -- mount-able filesystems. (30-50 ms. access
times don't hurt either).  We plan on running Venix/86.

I WILL post a summary of responses, so pls refrain from
``Let me know what you get.'' replies. [ I thank you, the
net thanks you. ]

	Brent Byer  (decvax!genrad!wjh12!bb)

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