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Subject: Re: Multiple swaps slow down system?
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> : The latest "Processor" magazine shows no price difference in drives
> : over 250M or so. 
> 
> Do the prices go high or low?

I don't understand the question.  The prices for larger drives are
exactly the same for SCSI as IDE.

The SCSI tends to have faster access times because, well, it's SCSI.
Other than that, the model numbers are the IDE and SCSI model numbers
on the exact same platters.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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