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From: Tony Kimball <alk@think.com>
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Subject: Re: Multiple swaps slow down system?
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Quoth Terry Lambert on Tue, 27 August:
: I always wonder if this is just dealers milking the market, or what.

Economy of scale; also, SCSI is a premium market.  

: The latest "Processor" magazine shows no price difference in drives
: over 250M or so. 

Do the prices go high or low?

Typical in PC Today:

  IDE 2.1G Fireball		$299	LIBI
  SCSI 2.1G Fireball		$399	LIBI
  IDE 2.1G Seagate/32140A	$259	Comp-U-Plus
  SCSI 2.1G Seagate/32151N	$575	House of Computers