[geeks] New Server Pictures

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 @ 14:02 -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366 said:

> 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?  

In some cases?  Sure, but certainly not all.

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