[geeks] HP announces EOL for AlphaServer systems

[kevin]

Don't forget Micropolis.  I had sub par results with their drives.

/KRM

Michael Parson wrote:

>I think most of the chronically bad drives are off the market.  Quantum
>Fireball SCSI -- didn't support reselection, worked fine if they were
>the only device on the chain, but if you put two disks, just hope you
>never had one disk with heavy I/O, might lock the bus, or heaven forbid,
>you had a tape drive and tried to do a backup.  Conner?  Saw one RAID
>where they had to replace a drive a day, from the day they brought it
>up.  After they'd replaced every drive in the array, they bitched at
>their vendor till they were able to replace them with Seagates.  Then
>Seagate does a beautiful thing and buys out Conner and takes them off
>the shelves forever! =)
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