[Info-vax] Hobbyist DS10/DS15 fastest storage option

[Dave Froble]

On 8/29/2018 1:32 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <pm6l6f$71i$2 at gioia.aioe.org>,
> helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply))
> writes:
>
>> In article <pm6l14$eeb$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
>> <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>>
>>> One of my systems is a VAXstation 4000 Model 90A, which has 2 disks, one
>>> or two GB RZ26 / RZ28 disks.  Never had a problem with performance.
>>> Yeah, all I do is software development, which is mostly using EDT, and
>>> the compiler and linker.
>>>
>>> What do you plan at home that requires that much storage, and faster
>>> performance?
>>
>> I had 2 VAXes in the cluster at home, including a 4000/90A, for 11
>> years.  Really nice, easy to work on, quiet, use little power.  I am now
>> Alpha-only.  Why?  Main reasons: advanced shadowing features, faster
>> ethernet, more modern TCPIP, faster SCSI.  If you aren't using
>> shadowing, you probably don't need faster ethernet nor faster SCSI (nor,
>> of course, more-advanced shadowing features); if you aren't connecting
>> to the outside world, you probably don't need more modern TCPIP.
>
> Of course, the main reason I had an ALPHA (along with the VAXes) in the
> cluster in the first place was a) because it had more-modern Fortran and
> b) sometimes (for Fortran stuff) I need more memory and more CPU.  While
> the 4000/90A is a really nice machine and, for a VAX, fast, a 21264/EV6
> with 2 GB memory makes a big difference.
>

Well, yeah, I also have Alphas, including EV6.  But I cannot use what 
they can do.  Just not what I do.  And I have the latest stuff from VSI. 
  I do development on an Alpha now.  And the boss is threatening me with 
an itanic.  I'm resisting.  I keep the VAXstation around and running 
cause I like it.

My job is to work on the applications the customers need.  They have the 
latest and fastest HW.  They need it.