On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 07:49:15PM -0600, Rick Kelly wrote:
> Greywolf said:
> >SCSI's additional components do not justify THAT much of a price
> >difference.  They charge that much more because They Can [TM].

Yeah, a 100+ GB SCSI drive costs 10 times as much as a similar IDE drive.

> But SCSI drives usually last longer, and you can actually have multiple
> drives on a controller.

My SCSI and IDE drives both seem to die before long.  Well, some drives
last 5 years even, but some SCSI drives have a feature of dying at the
age of 12-18 months.

I wish there was one manufacturer who put reliability before price and
top performance..

  -jm