Re: Apple's ways

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <3B6D51EA.69DCBFB@intergate.bc.ca>,
Wayne Stewart  <waynes@intergate.bc.ca> wrote:
 
> Paul Schlyter wrote:
> 
>> BTW the Mac too is now moving towards IDE harddrives.  Why?  Weren't
>> the SCSI drives superior?  <evil grin>
> 
> They still are for both PC and Mac except for one area, price. If you want
> an eye opener find someone with an Adaptec 29160 card and an apropriate HD
> and compare thate to their IDE performance. Makes me see my IDE drives as
> the cheap junk they are.
 
I know SCSI performs better than IDE, however disk performance is
nowadays way above what most people need anyway.  Therefore it's
quite reasonable with a cheaper alternative with lower performance --
if the performance is adequate to your needs, it's not "junk".  Why
pay more if you don't need to?
 
BTW there are probably disks which perform better than SCSI as well,
at a considerably higher price of course -- so we could call SCSI too
"cheap junk" in comparison....  <g>
 
Or we could go one step further still: anything but your own personal
supercomputer we could call "cheap junk".  And if you cannot afford
your own maintenance staff for your personal supercomputer, then we
can call you a "poor slob".  And as we all know, poor slobs cannot
afford anything but cheap junk.....  :-)))))))))))))))))
 
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