[filmscanners] RE: Slightly OT: Hard Drive Speed

["Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>]

> If walked into a computer store and priced a SCSI and IDE drive,
> the results
> would be as I reported.

Wanna bet?

> >> by coming up with the exceptions.
>
> >Well, it is YOU who came up with a comparison of two exceptions...
> > a cheap LARGE IDE drive with an expensive SMALL SCSI drive.
>
> The SCSI drive I used was the same model that Eizo bought and used for his
> example. It is priced in the same ballpark as similar Seagate and Quantum
> drives. I took the wholesale price of that SCSI drive and found
> the nearest
> match in wholesale price of a 7200 rpm IDE drive, which in this case was a
> 100gb Maxtor. They matched within $5. The Maxtor is not a cheap IDE drive.
> It's cost is about average for IDE drives. Some brands like Samsung and
> Fujitsu typically cost less. My comparision did not show that SCSI drives
> have a typically higher markup than IDE drives.

I'm sorry to say this, but either you do get it and don't want to admit it,
or you really don't get it.

My point was made, and stands.

Austin

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