Hi, On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Bill Layer wrote: > SCSI drives are overpriced for several reasons. First, a SCSI drive has > the actual disk controller hardware on the SCSI drive itself. True. This does improve performance, especially if you're doing CPU intensive tasks. > Second, SCSI drives are manufactured in lower quantities than are IDE > drives, which increases production costs. Yeah, this counts as "no good reason" in MY book - _I_ gain nothing from it (: > Even Apple computer, the long-time champion of the SCSI bus, has bailed > in favor of big, cheap and reasonably fast IDE drives. Hell with Apple, Sun are putting IDE in _servers_. And they're not even putting "cheap big and fast" ones in, they're putting in crappily slow 15GB and charging the same. > And yes... Beta was superior to VHS, too. PAL is souperior to NTSC too. Lotta good it does me with all these PAL VHS tapes lying around... -Yaron --