At 05:10 PM 9/27/02, you wrote: >perhaps you misunderstood me. SCSI was technologically superior to IDE by a >very considerable margin before IDE started to really become a reasonable >drive choice for anything but low end desktops. that's what i meant by "head >start". that gap has continued to close with time, but had the industry >started out with SCSI's advantages and put the same amount of effort into >improvements in SCSI as they did IDE, we'd probably be much futher along now.
I would have to second, Aaron on this. If you have watched the SCSI pricing lately you would notice that the prices have been steadily dropping. IDE RAID boxes are starting to take away market share from SCSI. You just can't build very cheap Terabyte arrays with Seagate 180Gigs. ($1500 USD per drive) but you can with western digital Ultra1800JBs (180GB $400 USD). We have sold 30 2.5 TB NAS boxes to the National Research Council and I don't think one of those Maxtor Dx540 160GB drives has failed yet. IDE is no longer the weak sister, it was before. -- Mark Lane Hard Data Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Telephone: 01-780-456-9771 FAX: 01-780-456-9772 11060 - 166 Avenue Edmonton, AB, Canada T5X 1Y3 http://www.harddata.com/ --> Ask me about our Affordable Alpha Systems! <--
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