Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 21:34:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mitsumi CD-ROM Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960717213207.25652D-100000@uplink.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199607172316.TAA24630@etinc.com>
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On Wed, 17 Jul 1996, Dennis wrote: > >> >Buy a Computer Shopper, look up "Dirt Cheap Drives". > >> > > >> >Compare SCSI vs. IDE. > >> > > >> >You are apparently buying from the wrong middleman... > >> > >> How about some numbers and model numbers, for example. > >> Surely you arent comparing drives of premium manufacturers > >> to off-brands? > > > >>From last year -- 10 months ago -- which I happen to have handy: > >size access RPM buffer brand model type price > >------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- > >530MB 13ms 4500 256k Fujitsu M2684T IDE $169 > >530MB 13ms 4500 256k Fujitsu M2684S SCSI $180 Geeze, picky. I just bought two from Hi-Tech Services via Computer Shopper, at a price of $359 each (that's 2.1G). They were DEC DSP 3210D's, and they seem pretty quick. And cheap. SCSI-3, differential. > > [...] > > oh...i said 2gig subsystems....you've conveniently left that one out? > > of course, they're really the same drive...so they SHOULD be > the same price. > > Dennis > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- 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! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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