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- Subject: Re: New 2gb AV hard drives (fast scsi2 / 5 year warranty) $595.00 in stock
- Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 07:43:10 GMT
- Organization: Micro Moonlighters
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- artt@nobeltec.com (Art Taylor) wrote:
-
- >In article <wperko.101.04626BB5@dnai.com>, wperko@dnai.com spewed forth the
- >following stuff...
- >>
-
- >>excuse me!
-
- >>Where in the world does a 2G HDD cost more than $300????
-
- >A primer on HD terminology:
-
- >Fast SCSI2 is a different(and more expensive) drive interface. Its main
- >advantages are that access and transfer to/from these drives is less
- >taxing on your CPU.
-
- >AV, which, as everywhere else, means Audio/Visual(or is it Video here?), is
- >a solution to one of the biggest problems with multimedia installations. This
- >problem is, of course, the bottleneck resulting from low or unsteady
- >throughput. AV drives can pump a steady, high volume of data into your
- >system. This is also more expensive than your ~5000 RPM $300 IDE drive.
-
- >His price is quite in line with current levels for equivalent devices.
-
- I just have to jump in here... I almost think his price sounds too
- good! I have seen lots of 2 Gig drives selling for $900 to $1000
- plus. Are hard drive prices falling so fast that a 2 gig drive with
- above average specifications can be sold for nearly .25 a meg?
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