Category talk:DEC Disk Drives

Adding DEC disk sub-categories?

I plan to add the series of DEC RFxx disk drives (about a dozen) for the DSSI Bus. Without sub-categories the category "DEC Disk Drives" will grow considerably. Should I start creating sub-categories (RP, RM, RA, RD, RF, ...)? Vaxorcist (talk) 15:40, 13 August 2023 (CEST)

I don't have a problem with adding a few categories (e.g. 'DEC Floppy Drives'), but I don't think we need one for each name prefix. The 'Rxyy' drive name itself does that well enough, I think; so no RK, RP, etc categories. What other ones make sense? 'DEC Removable-pack Drives' (for RK, RP, RM - although I guess the RP07 and maybe the RM80 were non-removable)? And I guess 'DEC Fixed-head Drives' for the RS11, RS03, RS04, etc. 'DEC Fixed-pack Drives' (for RA 81, ??) I don't know enough about the RD's, etc to have any idea about them. I'm not sure if 'fixed-pack' is the right term to use; I'm too lazy/busy to read the DEC documents and see what term DEC used. Jnc (talk) 16:45, 13 August 2023 (CEST)

There will be about 40 RZxx (SCSI) disk models altogether (not even counting the "newest" ones), too, so a "Winchester" category for all of the fixed disk drives will be quite filled. Why not split them by interface type? Yes, maybe it doesn't make sense to split the MASSBUS drives into different categories. But I think an "MSCP" category would make sense covering all the RAxx and RDxx drives. Additionally one category for the ancient Fixed-head Drives, one for SCSI, and one for DSSI. Vaxorcist (talk) 17:10, 13 August 2023 (CEST)