On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Ian C. Sison wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Rick Moen wrote: > > > Quoting Ian C. Sison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Your point is that hard disks come big enough for you to actually use it > all. My point is the _cost_ per megabyte of SCSI disks vs. IDE disks. > Two different things.
I think that if price were not a factor, I'd -still- choose SCSI over IDE hands down. Of course, in our economy, squeezing every little bit out of each hard earned Peso changes the picture. For personal use, and since the equipment comes out of my pocket, IDE drives become attractive considering costs. For deployment on machines at work, however, I ask for SCSI drives as much as possible (especially on servers). No cutting-corners for machines that I expect and want to be reliable work horses. Of course, frivolities such as sound cards, high-end graphics cards, flat-screen LCD monitors only get requested for if the budget officer is in a good mood. In a room full of machines, you only need one of those boxes to have the niceties. -- ___ Eric Pareja (xenos AT upm.edu.ph) | Information Management Service [IMS] \e/ Network and Systems Administrator | University of the Philippines Manila v ~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~ "Even the smallest person can change the course of the future." -Galadriel _ 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]
