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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:47749 comp.os.386bsd.questions:3764 comp.windows.x.i386unix:2476 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.windows.x.i386unix Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!uw-beaver!netnews.nwnet.net!ns1.nodak.edu!plains.NoDak.edu!ortmann From: ortmann@plains.NoDak.edu (Daniel Ortmann) Subject: Re: SUMMARY: 486DX2/66 for Unix conclusions (fairly long) Sender: usenet@ns1.nodak.edu (Usenet login) Message-ID: <CA34xu.sCp@ns1.nodak.edu> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 04:10:42 GMT References: <PCG.93Jul12003233@decb.aber.ac.uk> <CA0zHp.CqK@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> <CA11FI.u6@boulder.parcplace.com> Nntp-Posting-Host: plains.nodak.edu Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network Lines: 28 imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh) writes: )In article <CA0zHp.CqK@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> )ralph@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Ralph Becker-Szendy) writes: )>In article <PCG.93Jul12003233@decb.aber.ac.uk> pcg@aber.ac.uk )>(Piercarlo Grandi) writes: )>>Get at least 1GB. The cost per MB on disks >= 1GB is much lower than the )>>cost per MB for disks with lower capacities. A 1GB costs around $1050 )>>mail order... )>Not completely true. I have seen 200MB for <<$300 recently. ) )My hardware price expert friends tell me that no one seems to want )drives smaller than 300M, so the prices for them are falling through )the floor. A coworker got a 250M IDE hard disk for $300 recently, so )I suspect that the smaller drives are almost free. ) )And to think I paid $450 for a 40M ST251-1 a few years ago for my DEC )Rainbow. Another consideration is that I would partition a large drive into pieces <= 300 megs anyway JUST to act as a data protection firewall in case of catestrophic failure. The question is: Are three 333 meg drives cheaper than 1 1000 meg drive? :-) -- Daniel "un?X" Ortmann (talmid) NDSU Electrical Engineering ortmann@plains.nodak.edu shalom Fargo, North Dakota