MV-III CPU vs RD53 drives

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Wed Jan 2 21:43:16 2002

>
> On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>
> > > Actually a _working_ RD53 ought to be worth quite a bit since they are
> > > so rare ;-)
> > >
> > > Peter Wallace
> > >
> >
> > True, but unless you *MUST* use them, and there are reasons why some people
> > must use them, do you really want to trust *YOUR* data to one? I'm sure not
> > about to trust my data to one. Shoot, my free time is to valuable to use one
> > in a system where I'm just playing around with the OS!
> >
> > Zane
> >
>
> It was a joke...
>
> I recently went through a box of about 6 RD53s, trying to find one to fix
> one gone bad in a Xerox Daybreak, a few worked for a while and then went
> bad as they all seem to. I ended up tossing all of them, and using Seagate
> ST4096 instead -- still running (crosses fingers..)
>
> Peter Wallace

Actually it isn't a joke. They actually are quite valuable.

                Zane
Received on Wed Jan 02 2002 - 21:43:16 GMT