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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!nwnews.wa.com!news1.halcyon.com!coho!tzs From: tzs@coho.halcyon.com (Tim Smith) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too) Date: 6 Jan 1996 08:33:06 GMT Organization: Northwest Nexus, Inc. - Professional Internet Services Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4clc42$p4q@news1.halcyon.com> References: <4ajc07$sb7@unix2.glink.net.hk> <4cdijr$hjg@toplink1.toplink.net> <4cfq48$9lg@news1.halcyon.com> <1996Jan4.140833.18166@wavehh.hanse.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coho.halcyon.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:32377 alt.os.linux:6965 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:11694 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1747 Martin Cracauer <cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de> wrote: >>Unless you need more than one CD-ROM drive, or need to be a CD-ROM server >>in addition to being a file server, how do you justify the extra cost for >>a SCSI CD-ROM? > >Easy: How can you know you will not need more than one CD drive in the >future. If I need a second CD drive in the future, I'll do the same thing you will: I'll go by one. There's no hardware requirement that all CD-ROM drives use the same interface: one could have a couple IDE CD-ROMs, a proprietary interface CD-ROM, and a bunch of SCSI CD-ROM drives, all at the same time, if one wanted to. But for most machines, one will be enough, and that one will mostly just be used to install software from. For those machines, how do you justify spending more for the SCSI drive? --Tim Smith