On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 03:38:23PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 02:36:03PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:53:11 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > Whether the *battle* is something you care about... that's for you to > > > decide. > > > > Which is why I restricted my comments to PCs only. With a single user PC, > > it is extremely unlikely to make a significant difference > > Until you add that second hard drive. Of course with a 200 or 250 Gig IDE hard disk, you're much less likely to need to do that :) I don't think there's an affordable (for a home user) way to get that much storage and performance with any number of SCSI drives. 200 Gig Western Digital 7200 RPM with 8M buffer: $239 CDN 18 Gig Maxtor Atlas 3 10000 RPM: $179 CDN 36 Gig Maxtor Atlas 4 10000 RPM: $249 CDN 73 Gig Maxtor Atlas 4 10000 RPM: $539 CDN 146 Gig Maxtor Atlas 4 10000 RPM: $1099 CDN Prices from microbytes.com. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com> http://www.crasseux.com
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