[rescue] Apple Announces Rackmount Server - WITH IDEHARDWARE RAID

[Patrick Giagnocavo 717-201-3366]

On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:29:21PM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > SCSI snobbery at its finest.
> > 
> > The guts of the drive are the same.  They come off the same production
> > line.  Some get IDE electronics and connectors, some get SCSI.
> > 
> > Keep on paying 2 to 3 times as much for roughly the same performance
> > when dealing with 7200RPM drives.  When it gets cheap enough, 10K and
> > 15K drives will show up on IDE.  They will have the same performance
> > characteristics as a Cheetah.
> 
> It seems to me that rather than use IDE, what we should be doing is 
> demanding cheaper SCSI.

They charge what the market will bear.  Right now all the volume and
price competition is in ATA; quite frankly I don't see that changing.

./patrick