Thanks to all who replied;
Arun Sanghvi
R. Bernard Belew
Marco_at_gore.afep.cornell.edu
Bob Jackson
Walter Alpuin
Colin Brooks
Several replies mentioned the successful use of the Seagate ST15150N or
ST15150W drives. I contacted the marketing department at Seagate who
told me that DEC does sell these drives in many of their
workstations/servers. However, DEC does some tweaking in the SCSI modes
on the hard drives. The tweaking is intended to produce much higher
transfer rates as well as send messages to the OS of pending failure. Of
course this information is not publicly available. One of the replies
referred me to Western Scientific (1-800-443-6699) in Colorado. The
salesperson I spoke to was VERY knowledgeable about drives for DEC and
all other workstation/servers. Western Scientific was able to quote me
the drives I wanted at about $1000 less than the DEC quote. I was told
that Western Scientific has many different workstations in house and
they are able to test and tweak hard drives the same way that DEC and
other vendors do.
Again thanks for all the fast replies,
Tommy
>
> >Hello All,
> >
> >I need to buy another hard disk for my AlphaStation 600 5/233 and would
> >like to know if anyone has had any experience with after market hard
> >disk . I want to get two 4 GB hard disk but was quoted from DEC at a
> >cost of $4200. I know the the three hard disk currently in the machine
> >are Seagate Hawk drives. Does anyone know if Seagate's 4 GB wide drive
> >will work.
> >
> >Thanks
> >Tommy
> >Tommy Foley
> >tfoley_at_eng.uab.edu
> >Data Information Specialist
> >Materials and Mechanical Engineering
> >University of Alabama at Birmingham
> >
>
Tommy Foley
tfoley_at_eng.uab.edu
Data Information Specialist
Materials and Mechanical Engineering
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Received on Wed Jul 10 1996 - 18:21:52 NZST