[rescue] Re: u5>u30?!?

[Robert Novak]

On Wed, 8 May 2002, Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 07:57:06PM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > On ebay, U5s seem to be going for more than U30s.  What's up with
> > that?  Seems to me that U5s should be the cheapest Ultras next to the U1s.
> 
> All the lusers havent discovered the joys of the U30 yet.

Drives for the U5 may be cheaper, so the costs may balance out. And 32meg
dimms for the U5 are worthless these days so they're easier to find. 

For some environments a U5 is better. It's smaller and lighter, for one.
Where space/mass/drive price is minimally significant, yes, a U30 is
better.

--Rob
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