Wanted: opinions about Fujitsu (Was: Which disk to buy?)
Ron Guilmette
rfg at NCD.COM
Sat Aug 11 12:23:14 AEST 1990
I'm glad the subject of which disk to buuy came up.
I'm a software engineer, and a contractor. I've been thinking about
getting a some really nice machien for home (e.g. a Sparc SLC).
Now the question is "What drive?"
Looking in some local free publications in which people advertise all
sort of bargain basement hardware & such I see that it seems that I can
get very good prices on Fujitsu SCSI drives.
In particular, I saw a 778 MB (2263SA) drive advertised for as low as $1880
and a 389 MB (2249) drive for only $1200 (SCSI version).
The advertisements say that these drives come with 5 year warranty, and
that they have an MTBF of 200,000 hours. That all sounds pretty good to me.
Is there some catch I should know about? Are these good drives? Is there
any reason whatsoever that I should not be able to just plug & play one of
these drives (as the boot device) with a Sparc SLC?
--
// Ron Guilmette - C++ Entomologist
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