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

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