[rescue] Re: rescue digest, Vol 1 #3230 - 21 msgs

[ghub005 at xtra.co.nz]

Skeezics Boondoggle wrote:

<<what's *extremely* frustrating is that scsi chipsets have been around
forever, and by now they ought to be cheap to produce in quantity.  i've
suspected for years now that the wide gap in price between scsi and ide is
almost entirely artificial.  they take the same bloody hda and slap
virtually the same physical connector on the back and a nearly identical
controller on it, where the ide version might have $3.89 worth of fewer
parts on it than the scsi version, and one retails for $100 and the other
for $289.
>>

Yeah, but in the context of a 20,000 dollar server no-one will care about an extra couple of hundred dollars. This is also the reason why Intel Xeon chips can command a premium.

Regards,

Gavin