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Xref: sserve comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc:18526 comp.os.linux.hardware:2241 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5408 comp.os.os2.misc:126250 Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.os2.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!bonkers.taronga.com!peter From: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: IDE bad? was Re: List of recommended hardware components Distribution: inet Organization: Taronga Park BBS Message-ID: <D41LBK.KF5@bonkers.taronga.com> References: <3g890k$cbl@ionews.io.org> <3hn1m2$2dv@hermes.unt.edu> <D3yE42.6Ax@bonkers.taronga.com> <3hrlu8$ecj@hermes.unt.edu> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 12:57:19 GMT Lines: 19 In article <3hrlu8$ecj@hermes.unt.edu>, Vijay Narayan Ramasubramanian <vnr0001@jove.acs.unt.edu> wrote: >I really don't think you can beat the price performance from a Promise >EIDE2300plus+Quantum Lightning 730...the performance advantage is just >not there. And how many people want more than 2 fast HDDs? Plus CDROM plus tape plus scanner plus all the other junk you put in there and now you need to get a full sized MB instead of a mini because your slots are all full of custom controller cards and you need a bigger case for that... and EIDE has all these little extenders shipped on the disk so if you get a new O/S you need to reinstall them and oops you didn't know... All for a $50 price point five years ago. The reason these things are easier than SCSI is because the people working on making the software easy spend their resources on what's popular. You've got the cart before the horse... when IDE was just getting started it was a major pain.