Re: now's the time to buy a hard drive!

[clueung@pro-racing.cts.com (chantha lueung)]

fmlin@netcom.com (Frank M. Lin) writes:

>>	And Frank is pretty much right. $1 a MB is about average for IDE
>>but most SCSI drive I see around here run for about $2-$3 a MB. Still
>>pretty high up locally. I bought my 85MB Quantum external 3.5" for around
>>$380, and that included the case; that was last December.

Where have you been looking?  I always get them for under a $1/meg for SCSI

>The biggest IDE drive I've seen is ~550mb.  All high compacity, high
>performance drives are SCSI-2 these days, and all the big SCSI-2 drives
>have $1/mb or less.  Quantum 1.8g PD series for like $1499, and so on.

Seagate has already came out with a 1 Gig IDE drive.

>Only exception to under $1/mb I see right now is the ultra high performance
>3.5" Seagate Baracudas ( and very few others ), these drives have some 
>awesome specs.  :-)
>
>-- 
>frank m. lin
>fmlin@netcom.com

--chantha
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