On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:04:14PM -0500, Yaron wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Florin Iucha wrote: > > > 1. What do you need 75Gb for? > > jethro at dragon:/home/jethro> df -h /home > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda12 42G 33G 9.4G 78% /home > > I do a lot of video capture. It takes up space. > > > 2. When all your 75Gb go down the tubes... You'll be sorry you were cheap. > > SCSI is absolutely no guarantee of quality. I've had many, many SCSI > drives die on me - more than I can remember offhand. I've only had about 2 > IDE drives die on me. > > SCSI and IDE drives aren't really that different. SCSI is overpriced for > very little reason. Some say they go through a tougher QA process, but > then IBM Deskstarts (75GB IDE) do too. For the same reason that 256MB RAM costs $X and 512MB RAM costs 4 x $X. florin -- "If it's not broken, is because you are not fixing it enough." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4