>Jeffrey S. Sharp WROTE:
>> On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>> > In some ways he should be paying you to remove the RA81's!
>>
>> They're *that* common?
>
>Ticking time bomb. Someone decided to use
>a(n allegedly) cheaper glue even though the
>spec more or less said "do not substitute".
>The result was that a fair number of RA81s
>failed early in service.
>
>They have a bad reputation.
>
>Antonio
Well, there is that, however, what I was refering to is the fact that
they're D***** heavy! A lot heavier than I want to deal with! Plus they
suck up a lot of power, and take a lot of rack space. I prefer a couple
boxes of RA7x disks, they take about the same space as one RA81, probably a
little less, and you can have up to 8 disks between the two boxes, my
second choice would be RA90's.
Of course my real preference is for a SCSI controller, hence my PDP-11/44
has RL02's and a SCSI controller. Though my MicroVAX III has a KDA50 with
RA72's and RA73's and a RLV12 controller for RL01's and RL02's.
Zane
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| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator |
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| | Classic Computer Collector |
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Received on Wed Jul 18 2001 - 11:58:54 BST