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Date:      Thu, 24 Jul 1997 01:28:43 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM
Cc:        kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, sos@sos.freebsd.dk, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: building RAID systems
Message-ID:  <199707231558.BAA09859@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199707231511.KAA06339@compound.east.sun.com> from Tony Kimball at "Jul 23, 97 10:11:54 am"

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Tony Kimball stands accused of saying:
> 
> I wish.  SCSI is hopeless these days.  About 3-5x the price
> of IDE.

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.

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