--- Sridhar the POWERful <vance_at_ikickass.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>
> > >...(I just love RA disks and only need a 7x and a 60 to have the
> > > complete series 60, 81, 82, 90, 92, 7x.)
> >
> > Didn't the R-80 (RB80) also come in an SDI version? I know there's
> > an "RM80" Massbus version. I don't recall for certain if there was
> > an RA80 or not.
>
> If memory serves, wasn't the RA80 a flaming pile of dog crap? Or is that
> a different one?
It probably was. I don't think I ever saw one in the real world.
The RA81 with the wrong HDA rev was a steaming pile of quality for sure -
as has been hashed over countless times, the glue breaks down and the
heads crash soon after.
We had a customer 15 years ago, Colorado Community College, who had
several *rows* in a machine room of 42" cabs full of RA81s. They
complained to DEC that they lost an RA81 HDA about once a month. DEC
Field Circus kept insisting that the drives were reliable and had an
acceptable MTBF. Turns out that the MTBF divided by the enormous
number of drives they had, equalled 30 days - they were both right.
The solution, of course, was fewer spindles of higher capacity.
-ethan
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Received on Wed Apr 10 2002 - 16:28:24 BST