From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 27 14:35:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA01367 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 14:35:21 -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 OAA01358 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 14:35:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from protocol.eng.umd.edu (protocol.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.180]) by po2.glue.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA24687; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 17:35:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by protocol.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA05618; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 17:35:02 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: protocol.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 17:35:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@protocol.eng.umd.edu To: Tony Kimball cc: terry@lambert.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple swaps slow down system? In-Reply-To: <199608272042.PAA17883@compound.Think.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 Tue, 27 Aug 1996, Tony Kimball wrote: > 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 SCSI 2.1G (Quantum/DEC) $299. I just got 2. Hi Tech in LA. SCSI isn't more expensive! > IDE 2.1G Seagate/32140A $259 Comp-U-Plus > SCSI 2.1G Seagate/32151N $575 House of Computers > > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- 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! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------