Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 19:53:25 +0200 (MEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: building RAID systems Message-ID: <199707231753.TAA12475@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <7669.869677218@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jul 23, 97 10:00:18 am"
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In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I think the original poster's comments are still well taken, and we
> need to keep supporting SCSI so that we can get the price/perf ratio
> back on our side of the fence! ;-).
>
> For example, I was pretty flabbergasted to see the following prices at
> the Price Club yesterday (a local superstore which buys things in bulk
> and sells them to members, "things" being everything from computers
> and russian night-vision devices to Kayaks and wood burning stoves):
>
> IDE 6.1 GB drive: $549
> IDE 3.6 GB drive: $340
Hmm, here in DK land you get a 4GB for US$ 320, 7GB for US$ 520, both
quantity 1. This is normal shop prices.
> If Joe Blow is looking for capacity over speed, it's hard to see how
> he'll be able to resist deals like that in favor of SCSI options.
>
> Sigh. :-(
Amen.., but for a single user system EIDE drives works pretty well....
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