18 Nov
1998
18 Nov
'98
4:32 a.m.
I agree on the prices but I find that over 50% of the RD53's I get in are
bad and about 20% of the RD54's are bad.
I get calls several times a week from dealers looking for RD5X drives. Just
as soon as ther are formatted, RSX bad and a full disk copy/ verify is run
on them I have them sold.
The rediculous thing is none of the dealers try to upgrade their customers
to SCSI. I have upgraded virtually all of my end users. I offer them the
choice ofSCSI and ESDI (I have a lot of ESDI's avail.) and they always go
SCSI even though it is over 5 times the cost. ( End user - commercial)
Dan
< Well, I
found a place that supposedly is still selling RD54s, plus a ton
< other stuff for old DEC machines. (they want $200 for an RD54).
they are out of their minds! that price would have been considered
too high 5 years ago.
RD54 is a MFM drive, MAXTOR 2190 series. No majik.
Allison
I dunno, $150-200 seems to be the norm with the dealers. What gets me is I
just checked the page out, and they want $250 for a RD53!!! Personally I'm
happier now that I'm running on ESDI drives, as I've been able to find
several spares cheap.
I'm still depressed that I missed saving a case of brand new RD54's from
being recycled by my local recycler, I missed them by about two days :^(
Zane
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