Re: hard disk recommendation
On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Marc A. Volovic wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Paul Christenson wrote: In an attempt to avoid a war, I'll simply say that Silicon Graphics is using IBM SCSI drives exclusively. Given the nature of their products, I I am afraid you're wrong. I saw Seagate drives (in older stations) and, more recently, Quantum drives in High Impacts. SGI used to use Seagate exclusively (up to a year or so ago), but then they started getting customer complaints on the drives failing. They did go to Quantum for a short period, but they found that the Quantum drives have a nasty habit of recalibrating themselves from time to time, which makes the drives unavailable for a second or so, which really causes a performance hit on these machines. Quantum was unwilling to rewrite the firmware on their drives, so testing continued. IBM drives are the only ones that currently meet SGI specs. This was from a conversation with an SGI tech about three weeks ago. -- | This is OFFICIAL WRITTEN notification that I want to be REMOVED | | from ALL commercial mailing lists. EVERY message sent from this | | account has had this request posted. ALL UNSOLICITED ADVERTISEMENTS | | SENT TO THIS ACCOUNT ARE IN VIOLATION OF FEDERAL (U.S.) LAW.| -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hard disk recommendation
Paul Christenson wrote: On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Marc A. Volovic wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Paul Christenson wrote: In an attempt to avoid a war, I'll simply say that Silicon Graphics is using IBM SCSI drives exclusively. Given the nature of their products, I I am afraid you're wrong. I saw Seagate drives (in older stations) and, more recently, Quantum drives in High Impacts. SGI used to use Seagate exclusively (up to a year or so ago), but then they started getting customer complaints on the drives failing. They did go to Quantum for a short period, but they found that the Quantum drives have a nasty habit of recalibrating themselves from time to time, which makes the drives unavailable for a second or so, which really causes a performance hit on these machines. Quantum was unwilling to rewrite the firmware on their drives, so testing continued. IBM drives are the only ones that currently meet SGI specs. This was from a conversation with an SGI tech about three weeks ago. Which Seagate/Quantum drive was using and which IBM drive is using by SGI? lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hard disk recommendation
On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Lawrence Chim wrote: Which Seagate/Quantum drive was using and which IBM drive is using by SGI? I don't have that info. You'd have to ask SGI. | This is OFFICIAL WRITTEN notification that I want to be REMOVED | | from ALL commercial mailing lists. EVERY message sent from this | | account has had this request posted. ALL UNSOLICITED ADVERTISEMENTS | | SENT TO THIS ACCOUNT ARE IN VIOLATION OF FEDERAL (U.S.) LAW.| -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hard disk recommendation
On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Paul Christenson wrote: firmware on their drives, so testing continued. IBM drives are the only ones that currently meet SGI specs. This was from a conversation with an SGI tech about three weeks ago. Thanks for the correction. Not that it helped a whole lot, by the way, after the infamous patch 466 disaster with IBM Ultrastars. ---MAV (finger for PGP signature block) My opinions are my own and only my own. Standard disclaimer applies. Marc A. Volovic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Linguists do it cunningly -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hard disk recommendation
- Received message begins Here - I looked at a new drive and the only thing I saw was a DHFS sticker from IBM. Is that a model number or something? As far as the Seagates, I saw a couple of ST43400ND drives here in the office. They appear to be 2-3 years old. I don't know of any others in use by SGI for sure, but I'd guess there are others. The 43400 is a bit too big to fit into an Indy. I don't have an Indy torn appart to look at right now. Paul Christenson wrote: On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Marc A. Volovic wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Paul Christenson wrote: In an attempt to avoid a war, I'll simply say that Silicon Graphics is using IBM SCSI drives exclusively. Given the nature of their products, I I am afraid you're wrong. I saw Seagate drives (in older stations) and, more recently, Quantum drives in High Impacts. SGI used to use Seagate exclusively (up to a year or so ago), but then they started getting customer complaints on the drives failing. They did go to Quantum for a short period, but they found that the Quantum drives have a nasty habit of recalibrating themselves from time to time, which makes the drives unavailable for a second or so, which really causes a performance hit on these machines. Quantum was unwilling to rewrite the firmware on their drives, so testing continued. IBM drives are the only ones that currently meet SGI specs. This was from a conversation with an SGI tech about three weeks ago. Which Seagate/Quantum drive was using and which IBM drive is using by SGI? lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jim Lynch, System Engineer, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Federal Business Systems, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hard disk recommendation
On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Paul Christenson wrote: On Sun, 17 Nov 1996, Lawrence Chim wrote: In an attempt to avoid a war, I'll simply say that Silicon Graphics is using IBM SCSI drives exclusively. Given the nature of their products, I I am afraid you're wrong. I saw Seagate drives (in older stations) and, more recently, Quantum drives in High Impacts. ---MAV (finger for PGP signature block) My opinions are my own and only my own. Standard disclaimer applies. Marc A. Volovic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Linguists do it cunningly -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hard disk recommendation
On Sun, 17 Nov 1996, Lawrence Chim wrote: I am looking for a 4GM SCSI harddisk. Which brand is better? In an attempt to avoid a war, I'll simply say that Silicon Graphics is using IBM SCSI drives exclusively. Given the nature of their products, I doubt that it's because of cost. (Actually, it's because IBM drives give the best _consistent_ performance.) | This is OFFICIAL WRITTEN notification that I want to be REMOVED | | from ALL commercial mailing lists. EVERY message sent from this | | account has had this request posted. ALL UNSOLICITED ADVERTISEMENTS | | SENT TO THIS ACCOUNT ARE IN VIOLATION OF FEDERAL (U.S.) LAW.| -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hard disk recommendation
I am looking for a 4GM SCSI harddisk. Which brand is better? I am currently using Quantum GP and it is very noisy. I looked at the Web and found that IBM is cheaper then Quantum, while seagate is the most expensive one (more than $200 over Quantum). lawrence, -- This message was distributed manually by [EMAIL PROTECTED] after the list initially failed to distribute it.
