RE: Some upgrading questions...

[mjmahon@aol.com (MJMahon)]

Several replies in this thread have suggested that IDE hard
disks and SCSI hard disks are "about the same price" or
SCSI's are "only about $10-$20 more expensive."

Well, not according to the ads I read!  I'm a "bottom feeder"
when it comes to enhancing my Apple //, as I suspect many
are, in that I shop for deep discounts and other people's junk.
At Fry's (an electronics superstore in the Bay area), 220MB
IDE drives (with caches) go on sale for about $99, and 405MB
Maxtor IDE's (also cached) for $159.  I have *never* seen a
SCSI drive for less than $60-$100 more than the equivalent
capacity IDE--when they are "loss leaders."  Perhaps this
is because the Mac market keeps the price umbrella higher
on SCSI drives, or maybe it's that almost 9 times as many
IDE drives are sold as SCSI drives.

There is no "quality difference" between IDE and SCSI drives
in the PC market, because the only difference is the circuit
board attached to the bottom of the drive!


-michael

mahon@cup.hp.com