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To: e8917523@antares.linf.unb.br (Daniel C. Sobral)
Cc: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: IDE 
In-reply-to: Message from e8917523@antares.linf.unb.br (Daniel C. Sobral) 
             of "Wed, 17 Jul 1996 08:32:40 PDT."
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Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 08:48:58 PDT
From: Kenji Hubbard <kenji@godzilla.EECS.Berkeley.EDU>
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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