[geeks] New Server Pictures

Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366 patrick at zill.net
Tue Jun 8 13:02:05 CDT 2004


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

You're not aware that the exact same guts are used in both IDE and
SCSI drives, are you?  

What was the price difference between RZ27 and the 400MB IDE drive at
that time?

--P



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