From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 16 16:48:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA15153 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 16:48:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA15137 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 16:48:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA27087; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 17:47:50 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 17:47:50 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199607162347.RAA27087@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams To: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) Cc: Terry Lambert , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mitsumi CD-ROM In-Reply-To: <199607162315.TAA22612@etinc.com> References: <199607162315.TAA22612@etinc.com> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk dennis@etinc.com writes: > >The difference in price on drives is history (IMO), unless you are > >an idiot and buy from the wrong middleman. > > Horse Hockey. Typical low-end 2 gig substem is $400 more for SCSI Horse puckey. I can buy a mid-end (better than low end) SCSI drive for < $400, and I know they aren't giving away IDE disks. And, my SCSI controller came with my system and cost the same ($60) as the second IDE controller I would have needed. I'm running two disks, and a CD-ROM, which is pretty typical of 'end-user' systems nowadays. > >The main price differential is the controllers, and that goes away for > >motherboards with built in SCSI controllers (HP, Compaq, ASUS, etc.). > > They cost substantially more than available IDE Mainboards. There is > certainly a significant delta. IDE mainboards still only support 2 devices, which is not enough IDE devices for many folks. Nate