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Re: [TCLUG:12912] SCSI advice
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Mike Hicks wrote:
> IIRC, my Adaptec 2930 was right around $100 at Best Buy. It is has
> internal and external narrow (8-bit) Ultra or Ultra-2 interfaces (I
> can't remember which it was off the top of my head)
>
> I really wish the drives were cheaper, though. 3 times as much for the
> same amount of storage is just nuts! Western Digital getting out of
> that market (apparently 'Enterprise' == SCSI) isn't going to help
> things..
>
Yeah, the WD thing pisses me off. I've never found a SCSI drive I've liked
as much as the Enterprises for performance and durability, and yeah, that
does include Cheeta 10k and IBM 10k drives.
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