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- From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Re: World of Commodore summary, 9/11 (LONG)
- Message-ID: <65792@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 12:30:00 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1992Sep12.022801.11267@cco.caltech.edu>
- <1992Sep13.115645.20399@NeoSoft.com>
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- >In article <1992Sep12.022801.11267@cco.caltech.edu> andrey@cco.caltech.edu (An
- d
- >re T. Yew) writes:
- >> The question and answer session was pretty long and
- >> mostly devoid of stupid questions. The first question
- >> was (can you guess?), why IDE over SCSI? Dionne explained
- >> that it was cheaper to get large drives this way,
- >
- >Not true. There are some cheaper mid-sized drives available for IDE, bu
- >they're cheap drives. Where the *same* drive is available on SCSI and IDE
- >versions the price difference is negligable. Quantum drives cost the same
- >for either. I've wasted my share of money on cheap drives, and on a $4000
- >machine I'm damned if I can see why saving $25 to $50 by crippling the hard
- >drive subsystem is such a great deal.
- >
- >*Large* drives (1/2 GB or more) are available in SCSI first, IDE later or
- >not at all.
- >--
- >Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
- > `-_-' "Have you hugged your wolf today?"
- > 'U`
- >
-
- Agreed totally. IDE was a crappy move. Good thing we can add a SCSI card -
- and WASTE a slot! Hopefully the 4000s WILL include SCSI or SCSI II on
- the motherboard. Let's hope so...
-
- -Joel
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