Quoting Ian C. Sison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 71 US$ SCSI as opposed to $0.00 for a built in IDE controller in the > board is a big enough factor for me not to even consider scsi.
No skin off my nose, as the saying goes. I'm not trying to change your opinions, y'know. But I've _always_ had a preference for quality hardware. Lots of people find it tough to credit that I'd insist on USR external Courier modems, too. They likewise cost more than many alternatives. And, when I see people having compatibility problems, and wrestling with addressing modes, and getting wrapped up in drive-type tables, and having data corruption because the low-end support circuitry was buggy, and having to load dodgy emulation layers to address ATAPI devices, I chuckle to myself, but not within hearing of the victim, as that would be unkind. > Your point is that hard disks come big enough for you to actually use > it all. It's possible that you mistyped the above, since it appears garbled. I was saying that current-production hard drives of both types are so friggin' huge as to be functionally the same for sane purposes. Therefore, US $165 will buy you a "friggin' huge" drive of whichever type you prefer. At that pricepoint, the ATA one will be technically bigger (and therefore, if you get your rocks off from statistics, give you more megs per dollar), but, in human terms in practically any context, they're functionally the same. > And all the acknowledged advantages of SCSI over IDE is not enough to > convince me to buy this acer drive over the IBM drive.... Are you assuming I care? I'm sorry to disappoint you. -- Cheers, Founding member of the Hyphenation Society, a grassroots-based, Rick Moen not-for-profit, locally-owned-and-operated, cooperatively-managed, [EMAIL PROTECTED] modern-American-English-usage-improvement association. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
