[geeks] New Server Pictures

[Dan Duncan]

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Jeff Cole wrote:
> Ubid.com. I scored a 160gb drive for $99 + shipping  from there last week.

I got a 200GB (with 8MB cache) for my xbox a while back for $120.
It really just makes me sick that when Wintel boxes were looking for a
HD format to replace MFM/RLL they reinvented the wheel and went with such
a piece of shit technology like IDE when SCSI was so widely available.  It
took quite a while for available IDE drives to catch up in size to SCSI.
I had a 1.6GB drive (RZ27) in my 386 (and then 486) when the largest
IDE drive was in the 400MB range.  I still believe IDE set us back and
we'd be enjoying SCSI drives in the 300-400GB range for under $200 if
PCs had gone SCSI in the first place.

Sorry, I'll stop ranting now.

-DanD

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