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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:47670 comp.os.386bsd.questions:3748 comp.windows.x.i386unix:2464 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!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!jvs From: jvs@netcom.com (Jonathan Stockley) Subject: Re: SUMMARY: 486DX2/66 for Unix conclusions (fairly long) Message-ID: <jvsCA2EIo.47w@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <PCG.93Jul12003233@decb.aber.ac.uk> <CA0zHp.CqK@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> <CA11FI.u6@boulder.parcplace.com> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 18:39:59 GMT Lines: 28 In article <CA11FI.u6@boulder.parcplace.com> imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh) writes: >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... >>Not completely true. I have seen 200MB for <<$300 recently. > >My hardware price expert friends tell me that no one seems to want >drives smaller than 300M, so the prices for them are falling through >the floor. A coworker got a 250M IDE hard disk for $300 recently, so >I suspect that the smaller drives are almost free. I bought a Maxtor 340M drive at Fry's in Sunnyvale for $318 brand new! It's IDE and works just fine. The SCSI version was $499. I did a simple test of dd'ing the whole drive to /dev/null with a large (4M) block size and got over 600K/sec out of it. That's fast enough and cheap enough for me ... for now :-) Jo -- Jo Stockley jvs@netcom.com