Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 19:29:56 -0400 From: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) To: "M.R.Murphy" <mrm@Mole.ORG> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mitsumi CD-ROM Message-ID: <199607172329.TAA24670@etinc.com>
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>> >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. 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
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