[geeks] New Server Pictures

[Joshua Boyd]

On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 11:59:17AM -0600, Dan Duncan wrote:
> 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.

Didn't SCSI pretty much win out in the end anyway though?