[5476] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother))
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Liebschutz)
Sat Oct 19 21:57:02 1996
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 96 18:55:37 PDT
From: Rob Liebschutz <rob@rjl.com>
To: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@bifrost.seastrom.com>
Cc: michael@memra.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 19 Oct 1996 19:54:58 -0400 (EDT)
>
> From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
>
> On Sat, 19 Oct 1996, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
>
> > With cold-convenient-swappable IDE drawers that let even a
> > kindergartener swap out an IDE hard drive and high quality 100mb hard
> > drives available for like $50
>
> Where on earth do you find new drives this small???
>
> http://www.corpsys.com
>
> But apparently with their current stock of new drives you'll have to
> settle for IBM 3.5" 170mb drives for $99 each ($89 qty 10).
>
> Now, if you don't mind refurbs, there are $65/$55 80mb drives and
> $69/$59 131mb drives. I've dealt with these folks before and they're
> righteous.
>
> Oh well, the $50 was a little optimistic, or maybe not if you're
> buying a bunch of 'em...
>
> ---Rob
>
>
>
I have a hard time calling IDE drives reliable. At one time I used
them in firewalls, and every now and then, tripwire would report
random changed bits on the disk, and then the next time I ran
tripwire, the problem would just go away. Now I use low end SCSI
drives for these kind of applications cause I prefer to have all my
data parity checked.
Rob
