6 May
2005
6 May
'05
1:01 a.m.
On 5/5/05, shoppa_classiccmp at trailing-edge.com
<shoppa_classiccmp at trailing-edge.com> wrote:
I have a pair of 1.2GB ESDI drives attached to an ESDI<->SDI board
that's presently hooked to my VAX 8300. Much lighter and much less
power hungry than five or six RA81s. :-)
-ethan
[ESDI drives]
I think I handled a 600 in a Novell server once.
In the early 90's, I was a huge fan of ESDI drives. The largest
I ever dealt with were 1.3 Gig Hitachi's.
The larger-capacity drives generally had higher data rates and most
WD-based PC-clone controllers couldn't handle them. I think the largest
were targetted towards ESDI-based RAID arrays. They were built like
Bentley's - solid!