From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 23 08:59:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA26681 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 08:59:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA26674 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 08:59:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id BAA09859; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 01:28:43 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199707231558.BAA09859@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: building RAID systems In-Reply-To: <199707231511.KAA06339@compound.east.sun.com> from Tony Kimball at "Jul 23, 97 10:11:54 am" To: Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 01:28:43 +0930 (CST) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, sos@sos.freebsd.dk, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Tony Kimball stands accused of saying: > > I wish. SCSI is hopeless these days. About 3-5x the price > of IDE. Actually, you should go back and look at what SCSI drive prices are doing at the moment. I can get a 5400 RPM 4GB ultra scsi IBM disk for less than 30% more than the corresponding IDE model. IBM's pricing is pretty keen at the moment. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[