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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!oleane!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.erols.net!news3.cac.psu.edu!news.cse.psu.edu!news.cc.swarthmore.edu!netnews.upenn.edu!dsinc!newsfeed.pitt.edu!news.duq.edu!newsgate.duke.edu!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!paperboy.wellfleet.com!newsmaster From: Robert Withrow <bwithrow@baynetworks.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SCSI card Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 08:09:30 -0400 Organization: Bay Networks, Inc. Lines: 29 Message-ID: <32355A7A.41C67EA6@baynetworks.com> References: <Pine.SOL.3.93.960903215141.13825B-100000@bmec.hscbklyn.edu> <MICHAELV.96Sep9090526@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dino.wellfleet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b7 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) Michael L. VanLoon said: > You should check again. There is very little difference in price > between a SCSI and EIDE version of the same drive, in general. I've checked and checked again and again. Scsi ``systems'' always have about a 10% to 20% premium. For example check a Gateway P6-200 system configured similarly, one with scsi, one with ide. Difference about $500. For that price you can get 128 MB memory instead of 64 MB. For my money, unless the people who claim differently can provide *specific* examples of *major* vendors who price scsi and ide the same, I treat such claims as apocryphal. > You should also note that the NCR/Symbios cards are very inexpensive > compared to the others (under $100). Except that the *only* place you can get these seems to be from mail-order places advertising in ``Computer Shopper''. You can't go the the corner computer store and get them. You *can* get an adaptec there. And that is important because when the card is DOA (as was the NCR card I tried to install this last weekend) you can go to the store and shake the sales droid until a replacement falls to the floor. ;-) -- Robert Withrow -- (+1 508 436 8256) BWithrow@BayNetworks.com