From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 17 18:36:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA07255 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 18:36:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from po1.glue.umd.edu (po1.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA07244 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 18:35:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from uplink.eng.umd.edu (uplink.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.181]) by po1.glue.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA03408; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 21:35:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from chuckr@localhost) by uplink.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA25929; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 21:35:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 21:35:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@uplink.eng.umd.edu To: Dennis cc: "M.R.Murphy" , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mitsumi CD-ROM In-Reply-To: <199607172329.TAA24670@etinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 17 Jul 1996, Dennis wrote: > >> >From last year -- 10 months ago -- which I happen to have handy: > >> size access RPM buffer brand model type price > >> ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- > >[...] > >> > >> 1083MB 11ms 4090 256K NEC D3727 IDE $235 > >> 1083MB 11ms 4090 256K NEC D3827 SCSI $295 > > > >>From this week, in the lower left corner of the US, > > > > 1.2G fast enough :-) Conner IDE $183 > > 1.27G fast enough :-) Maxtor IDE $182 > > 1.08GT fast enough :-) Seagate SCSI $250 > > 1.08GT fast enough :-) Quantum SCSI $255 > > > >VLB IDE I/O 4HD, 2FD $22 > >Adaptec 2842 VL (kit) $239 > > Well, I hate to defend Terry when he's so off-base, but you hardly need the kit > for FreeBSD, and it does add $25. or so. > > I still like the: > > PCI on-board IDE (almost all Pentium MBs) $0. New NCR 825, about $115. > Adaptec PCI SCSI (2940) $179. > > > There aren't enough on-board SCSIs to chose from to consider it, and you're also > stuck with whatever they decided to put on-board.....which may not be as good > or well-supported at the standard card. > > The point is, if you have 50 machines that don't care much about disk speed, > there certainly is a difference in cost. > > Dennis > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com > > Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For > Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame > Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD > and LINUX > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------