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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:48545 comp.os.386bsd.questions:3901 comp.windows.x.i386unix:2576 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!stein2.u.washington.edu!tzs Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.windows.x.i386unix Subject: Re: SUMMARY: 486DX2/66 for Unix conclusions (fairly long) Message-ID: <22biv9$p6@news.u.washington.edu> From: tzs@stein2.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) Date: 18 Jul 1993 13:24:57 GMT References: <21k903$3q4@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> <PCG.93Jul12003233@decb.aber.ac.uk> <CA0zHp.CqK@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> Organization: University of Washington School of Law, Class of '95 NNTP-Posting-Host: stein2.u.washington.edu Lines: 31 ralph@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Ralph Becker-Szendy) 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. So >the figure of $1/MB is not GREATLY exceeded by smaller disks. And compared In fact, I've seen smaller disks at $1/MB. Given that disk prices are falling, which of the following strategies is best? 1. Buy the biggest disk you can afford. The cost per megabyte will be less. or 2. Buy the smallest disk that will meet your needs for some specified amount of time (say, 1 year). You will spend more per megabyte now, but when you replace the disk with a bigger one next year, the cost per megabyte will be way down, and you will come out ahead compared to the person who bought the big disk initially. (This is assuming you are only going to run with one disk. Make appropriate modifications for multiple disk systems). -- "Pope moved that we strike from the State's brief and appendix a selection from the Year Book of 1484 written in Medieval Latin and references thereto. The State provided no translation and conceded a total lack of knowledge of what it meant. The motion is granted" 396 A.2d 1054 --Tim Smith