GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother))

Sun Oct 20 01:55:37 UTC 1996

> 
>    From: Michael Dillon <michael at 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