🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Arnold H Lee wrote:

> offhand, scsi prices have dropped dramatically.
> i have managed to buy a 2 gig seagate barracuda (7200 rpm, narrow) for
> only 160.  
> the prices are comparable to ide.  and why limit yourself to 4
> devices?  2 hard disks, a CD-R...a CD player...on an IDE system, i'm
> done.  but i plan to install perhaps another hard disk and i'd sure
> like to get my hands on a cd-changer (16 speed, 5 disk?  mmm .)

	but  there are two other slots you can have tertiary
quarterny IDE controllers for a total of 8..  but i think they use up
interrupts 11/12.... (what was 12 anyway ega interrupt?) Are there
competitively priced SCSI drives in the larger  size range? its all very
well to daisy chain (6? 8?) SCSI but if they are all 2 gig drives you
coulda just bought one monster drive :) Those Quantums are unfeasibly huge
now and pretty cheap.. but everything is cheap these days *sigh* I think i
may get a cheap SCSI card one day.. for those zippadeedodaa thingies..

> with scsi, you just get so many upgrade options.  many more toys for
> the off-the-wall pc enthusiast.

	as someone who spent entirely too much time working out the
deal w/ EIDE and LBA's and gig barriers i'd have to say i get the
impression that SCSI is a little more stable/standardized worked out as 
far as setting up and installing.. and if i had found a 6-7 gig SCSI drive
for $400 (ie w/in a 25% price bracket increase) I would have bought that
rather than the eide.. just because i'd probably have less grey hairs :)

	-me