Re: Does Squid beat the rest? -Reply

On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, Paul Gracy wrote:

> This depends on how reliable you require a system to be. The new
> Adaptec 3130 allows hot swap and warm swap of normal drives on a
> SCSI chain. And 9 GB drives are 1500-2000, depending. You could
> build a HUGE system for $30,000. Of course, I think Gregory's orignal
> message was meant to say that most people don't need that much
> horsepower. Some do, most don't.

See http://www.corpsys.com for new Seagate 9GB full-height SCSI drives
(both wide and narrow) for $795 each. They also have Micropolis narrow
9GB for $495. I think "HUGE" might be a slight understatement. ;-)

        -Mike Pelletier.
Received on Mon Sep 22 1997 - 13:41:51 MDT