Re: Old Compaq Server

["Robert G. Brown" <bob@xxxxxxx>]

"Jeff Palmer" <somedamnfool@hotmail.com> wrote:

>a hair???? the hair of what???????
A blue whale, on steroids, percentage-wise.
But in absolute terms, we're talkin' hamsters.

Look, your point is that there's about a 1.8:1 ratio between SCSI and IDE
drives. Back when things cost $1 a megabyte, that mattered a LOT more than
it does now. I recall paying $500 for a 500 Mb IDE drive, and the same guy
was living in the White House, then as now.  Back then, spending $1000 for
the same size Drive looked silly to me.

>ok 9.1 gig quantum scsi drive... $225... 
That $24.72 per gigabyte, please!

>IBM 20.4 gig EIDE $191....
$9.36 per gigabyte, or 2.6:1

>... quantum 9.1 gig EIDE... $126....
$13.85 per Gb...1.78:1 over the other 9.1 Gb Quantum drive.

Yes, the ratios look big, BUT in 1993, I'd have to work for over a DAY
to make up the cost difference on 500 Mb SCSI vs. IDE. Now, for drives
as much as 40 times as large, I pay a LOT less (in terms of worktime)..
on a per gigabyte basis, I' can now make up that difference in only
a few minutes!

Perhaps this is only another way of saying that HDD prices have fallen 
tremendously over that time. My claim is that they have fallen so much we
need to re-evaluate how we evaluate prices in general.

If you beleive SCSI has advantages over IDE, then that spread in absolute
income terms has never been smaller.. until next week, that it! :)

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