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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:47651 comp.os.386bsd.questions:3741 comp.windows.x.i386unix:2457 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.windows.x.i386unix Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!nevada.edu!jimi!maniac From: maniac@unlv.edu (Eric J. Schwertfeger) Subject: Re: SUMMARY: 486DX2/66 for Unix conclusions (fairly long) Message-ID: <1993Jul12.173309.16301@unlv.edu> Sender: news@unlv.edu (News User) Organization: Too many References: <21k903$3q4@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> <PCG.93Jul12003233@decb.aber.ac.uk> <CA0zHp.CqK@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 93 17:33:09 GMT Lines: 22 In article <CA0zHp.CqK@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> ralph@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Ralph Becker-Szendy) writes: >In article <PCG.93Jul12003233@decb.aber.ac.uk> pcg@aber.ac.uk >(Piercarlo Grandi) writes: >>Get at least 1GB. The cost per MB on disks >= 1GB is much lower than the >>cost per MB for disks with lower capacities. A 1GB costs around $1050 >>mail order... 1GB is fine for a dream system, but I'm spending less than $1000 on my system (excluding disk and controller), for 486DX40 VLB, 8 Meg ram, mono vga). Getting a 1GB SCSI drive and controller will more than double the cost of the system, whereas a 340 MB IDE drive and controller is much less. Of course, since someone is talking EISA, they're obviously ready to outspend me. >Not completely true. I have seen 200MB for <<$300 recently. So >the figure of $1/MB is not GREATLY exceeded by smaller disks. And compared Don't flood me for requests, the company doesn't do end users, but I've seen 340 MB drives for under $300. The prices in the 240-340MB drive sizes have been dropping very rapidly over the last two months -- Eric J. Schwertfeger, maniac@cs.unlv.edu