rd54s - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

18 Nov 1998

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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