Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 02:37:29 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> 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, sos@sos.freebsd.dk, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: building RAID systems Message-ID: <199707231707.CAA10431@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <7669.869677218@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jul 23, 97 10:00:18 am"
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Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > 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! ;-). I should have posted the comparo I did with sef as a followon to this. > 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 > > 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. Well, as I was saying, the 4GB ultra-SCSI IBM is AUD$533 (ex) here, or US$373. That's gotta count as "pretty cheap", hmm? That's from a mainstream distributor, too. Quantity-one pricing. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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