From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 17 18:38:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA07439 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 18:38:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from po2.glue.umd.edu (po2.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.45]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA07433 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 18:38:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from uplink.eng.umd.edu (uplink.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.181]) by po2.glue.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA17317; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 21:34:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from chuckr@localhost) by uplink.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA25915; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 21:34:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 21:34:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@uplink.eng.umd.edu To: Dennis cc: Terry Lambert , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mitsumi CD-ROM In-Reply-To: <199607172316.TAA24630@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: > >> >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! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------