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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!quagga.ru.ac.za!ucthpx!uctvax.uct.ac.za!ctech.ac.za!ernstjdt Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: SCSI or IDE HD? Message-ID: <ernstjdt.32.2E5AEC1B@ctech.ac.za> From: ernstjdt@ctech.ac.za Date: Wed, 24 Aug 1994 06:43:39 GMT References: <salem.137.2E48D259@hauk.hsr.no> <graphix.776531255@spiff.cc.iastate.edu> <salem.147.776612144@hauk.hsr.no> <arog.777371580@BIX.com> Organization: Cape Technikon Nntp-Posting-Host: 155.238.48.27 Lines: 27 In article <arog.777371580@BIX.com> arog@BIX.com (arog on BIX) writes: >Subject: Re: SCSI or IDE HD? >From: arog@BIX.com (arog on BIX) >Date: 20 Aug 94 08:33:00 GMT Cutting a lot of interesting stuff to keep reply short... >Back to 'cost issues' for a moment. The major cost element of >a drive is the stuff that goes into the sealed disk enviornment. >That is just a lot of nasty high precision machine work and >coating technology in there... as well as the overhead of >the clean.rooms for assembly of that aspect of the drives. >This brings us back to the issue of the electronics that I >spoke to above. I doubt that there is any material difference >in the mechanical assemblies between SCSI and IDE... if any. I've been offered from more than one supplier (so I guess what they say 'can' be true - makes sense anyway) that they can supply me SCSI and IDE drives AT THE SAME PRICE - only difference is the firmware and the bus interface/controller (and the socket on the drive :-) Unfortunately the SCSI drives I'm interested in the manufactures don't make for the IDE market so I havn't yet tried that theory. Ernst -- et@ctech.ac.za