Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 08:48:58 PDT From: Kenji Hubbard <kenji@godzilla.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> To: e8917523@antares.linf.unb.br (Daniel C. Sobral) Cc: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: IDE Message-ID: <199607171549.IAA23772@godzilla.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: Message from e8917523@antares.linf.unb.br (Daniel C. Sobral) of "Wed, 17 Jul 1996 08:32:40 PDT." <9607171231.AA25214@antares.linf.unb.br>
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On Wed, 17 Jul 1996 08:32:40 -0400 (WST) Daniel C. Sobral
scribed this stuff:
[etc.]
> > Buy a Computer Shopper, look up "Dirt Cheap Drives".
> >
> > Compare SCSI vs. IDE.
> >
> > You are apparently buying from the wrong middleman...
>
> Well, for me, and I assure you I'm _not_ buying from the wrong middleman,
> it costs from $400 to $500 *more* to buy a SCSI CD-ROM drive. I could
> buy two IDE CD-ROM drives with that difference.
[etc.]
Well, from a few resellers in the SF Bay Area I talked to lately, a 8x IDE
CD-ROM and a 6x SCSI CD-ROM is almost the same in price, and he knew the 6x
SCSI CD-ROM is faster. I agree with the gentleman who said you're buying
from the "wrong" middleman, as far as price goes. You should be able to get a
Teac or Toshiba 6x/6.7x SCSI CD-ROM nearly as dirt-cheap as you get one of
those cheap 8x IDE CD-ROM drives, and you won't be missing out on speed.
This assumes you have a SCSI controller or SCSI on motherboard (which is
roughly $100-$125 more than a comparable one with EIDE) already.
-Kenji
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