Re: [vox] Keepin' my box cool

[Rod Roark <rod@sunsetsysteMAPSms.com>]

Regarding "shopping lessons":  Here's wholesale pricing from 
one of my distributors:

  ------------- SCSI --------------    -------------IDE -------------

  2 IBM 36G U160 Drives:       $560    2 IBM 40G ATA100 Drives:  $140
  Adaptec 19160 U160 Card:      222
                               ====                              ====
  Total                        $782                              $140

This stuff is typical of what's in the sales channels right now.
None of my clients ask for older SCSI drives, and you're not
going to get U160 out of a $45 SCSI adapter.  I guess you can do
better on ebay but that's not an option for me.

Regarding "bigger than you can fill": It's not hard for someone
who likes to multi-boot a bunch of different operating systems 
to fill one of these up.  But that's just me.  Some folks have
huge collections of music, or... uh, images.

Regarding "bigger than you can economically back up": One drive
backs up the other.

Regarding DOS: Eh?

-- Rod
   http://www.sunsetsystems.com/

On Saturday 13 July 2002 04:51 pm, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Rod Roark (rod@sunsetsystems.com):
> > The problem is, a typical desktop machine with two hard drives will
> > cost about $600-800 more in a SCSI configuration than with IDE....
>
> You need _shopping_ lessons, boy.
>
> Hard drives these days come in basically one size, called "bigger than
> you can fill, and bigger than you can economically back up".  Your
> $200 buys the same size in either SCSI or ATA ("IDE"):  both "bigger
> than (et al.)", with a greater amount of excess-more-than-I-can-use
> space in the ATA case.
>
> The Symbios-based Tecram card is $45.  Resulting total delta:  $45
>
> Of course, you _might_ have the world's largest pr0n collection, or a
> complete collection of Farscape DIVXes, or something like that.  In
> which case, some n>1 of ATA drives on a 3Ware Escalade will indeed be
> just the ticket (while you brood over your lack of backup).
>
> > ...-- and for a performance benefit which will go unnoticed.
>
> Spoken like a DOS user.  Yay, team!

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