From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 4 18:53:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA23116 for current-outgoing; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 18:53:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA23111 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 18:53:09 -0800 (PST) From: sthaug@nethelp.no Received: from verdi.nethelp.no by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA05426 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Mon, 4 Nov 1996 19:52:38 -0700 Received: (qmail 2755 invoked by uid 1001); 5 Nov 1996 02:49:24 +0000 (GMT) To: mark@quickweb.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/obj size In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 4 Nov 1996 18:42:20 -0500 (EST)" References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.28.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 03:49:24 +0100 Message-Id: <2753.847162164@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On the topic of hard-disks, I obviously need a new one, so what do you all > recomend for a FAST-SCSI-2 drive. I just have an NCR c810 controller, so I > don't need the Ultra-Wide stuff. My local store is telling me that a 2GB > Quantum Atlas is about $900 CDN!!! And his price on a Seagate Hawk 2.1GB > is $700. Seems high to me, and I remember Terry and others debating the > equal cost of IDE and SCSI a while ago.. The exchange rate is about 0.76 > right now, so my local guy wants about $500 US for the Hawk. Like I said, > seems high.. You might want to check the IBM DORS-32160 2 GB if you can find them. They are less than two thirds of the price of the Atlas here in Norway. I have two of them, and are very happy with price and performance so far. At least here in Norway SCSI is definitely more expensive than IDE (about 30% more). I tend to stick with SCSI because I regard the technology as much better than IDE. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no