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Xref: sserve comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc:18462 comp.os.linux.hardware:2203 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5388 comp.os.os2.misc:126076 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.unt.edu!jove!vnr0001 From: vnr0001@jove.acs.unt.edu (Vijay Narayan Ramasubramanian) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.os2.misc Subject: Re: IDE bad? was Re: List of recommended hardware components Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.os2.misc Date: 15 Feb 1995 01:38:16 GMT Organization: University of North Texas Lines: 29 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <3hrlu8$ecj@hermes.unt.edu> References: <3g890k$cbl@ionews.io.org> <D3ooGs.CD4@bonkers.taronga.com> <3hf3f6$fmi@gap.cco.caltech.edu> <3hn1m2$2dv@hermes.unt.edu> <D3yE42.6Ax@bonkers.taronga.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: jove.acs.unt.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Peter da Silva (peter@bonkers.taronga.com) wrote: > Only if you bought a premium SCSI controller. There have been cheap SCSI > controllers for quite a while, all at least as good as IDE (which is to > say not that very good) and the drive prices for equivalent SCSI and IDE > drives were within a few tens of dollars (or in the case of some vendors > like Quantum, the same). I really don't think you can beat the price performance from a Promise EIDE2300plus+Quantum Lightning 730...the performance advantage is just not there. And how many people want more than 2 fast HDDs? While a lot of people might post in response to that question, they are the minority. I think that IDE succeeded because of its price and ease of use. I really don't agree with Mr. da Silva about why IDE succeeded...anyway, I don't think you will find many people who believe that IDE/EIDE is faster/more powerful/flexible...its just cheap, easy to set up, and fast enough... > What killed SCSI over IDE was that the screwdriver shops didn't like > it, because they couldn't pump margins down as far. When you're running > on a margin of a few tens of dollars (or in some cases running at a loss > and living on the interest you earn between getting paid and paying for > your components net 30) then the price becomes more critical. But for > the end user the price difference between SCSI and IDE was small or was > artificially inflated by some fella in a strip center. -- -Vijay Ram (vnr0001@jove.acs.unt.edu)