begin quoting Ralph Shumaker as of Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 09:22:34AM -0700: [snip] > Is that why SCSI HD prices always stayed higher than IDE? Controllers > too?
SCSI HD prices didn't used to be *that* much higher than IDE HD prices. IIRC, there was a time when it was about $10-$20 different, but I've long since thrown out all those old catalogs. Controllers for IBM-PCs were high, but that's just market forces; almost every other personal computer came with built-in SCSI, didn't it? > I don't think the limited adoption of SCSI was as much determined > by industry as it was by the market, unless industry was artificially > keeping SCSI prices high. But why would they do that? Keep the profit margins high, perhaps? -- The supply-demand curves can be manipulated, contrary to most models. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
