[rescue] Re: u5>u30?!?

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:13:44PM -0700, Robert Novak wrote:
> 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.

Excuse me, but how are U5 drives cheaper than any other machine?  If 
anything, they are worse for the U5 since a SCSI controller must be loaded
first.  

I suppose they are smaller, but they have a large foot print.

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Joshua D. Boyd

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