Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 12:11:35 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Kimball <Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Cc: 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: <199707231711.MAA06690@compound.east.sun.com> References: <199707231511.KAA06339@compound.east.sun.com> <199707231558.BAA09859@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Quoth Michael Smith on Thu, 24 July: : 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. This 'corresponding IDE model' argument has been used before. I find it utterly specious. There is no SCSI model which corresponds to the IDE disk drives I actually buy. I know that can buy a 6.4G 3.5" Seagate for ~$350. The closest match I know in SCSI is a Micropolis 8.7G for $1300. That's one big gap. If you know of a 3.5" SCSI drive offering >5G which is competetive in price with the Seagate drive, I'd like to know, because I'd like to buy it. I have been hoping for a long time that things would change, that SCSI drives would come in line with IDE price/performance. Instead, the situation is getting worse and worse.
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