From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 19 13:47:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AFCD37B808 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 13:47:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA53830; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 15:47:00 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 15:47:00 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon To: Brett Glass Cc: "Dale E. Chulhan" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best NIC / Best CDR-CDRW In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000418195638.03ce9a20@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Brett Glass wrote: > At 05:39 PM 4/18/2000 , Chris Dillon wrote: > > >Plextor is _cheaper_? Where in the world are you buying your drives? > > I get them a few pennies above wholesale from a distributor. Yes, the > high-end Yamahas are more expensive but produce significantly fewer > rejects. I'd love to know who your distributor is. :-) According to pricewatch as of a few seconds ago: Plextor 12x4x32 $299 Plextor 8x2x20 $316 (interesting that this costs more than the above) Yamaha 8x4x24 $215 Both SCSI, of course. How much can you get the same drives for? Also, I would expect the Plextor drives to be more reliable than the Yamaha, but I've never put them to the test. If Yamaha really is better, I'll just stick with them as I have in the past. :-) -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures. ( http://www.freebsd.org ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message