All things ESDI

[Ethan Dicks]

On 5/5/05, shoppa_classiccmp at trailing-edge.com
<shoppa_classiccmp at trailing-edge.com> wrote:
> > [ESDI drives]
> > I think I handled a 600 in a Novell server once.
> 
> In the early 90's, I was a huge fan of ESDI drives.  The largest
> I ever dealt with were 1.3 Gig Hitachi's.
> 
> The larger-capacity drives generally had higher data rates and most
> WD-based PC-clone controllers couldn't handle them.  I think the largest
> were targetted towards ESDI-based RAID arrays.  They were built like
> Bentley's - solid!

I have a pair of 1.2GB ESDI drives attached to an ESDI<->SDI board
that's presently hooked to my VAX 8300.  Much lighter and much less
power hungry than five or six RA81s.  :-)
 
-ethan