Re: ULTRA ATA/100 announced

Brian Gerst (bgerst@quark.vpplus.com)
Tue, 06 Jun 2000 09:36:25 -0400

James Sutherland wrote:
> > The success of ATA proceeds the same way as the success of M$ O/Ses.
> > Users pay for it generally unintentionnally and just use it or
> > want to use it because they have it.
>
> There is one other big difference: PRICE.

The reason SCSI is so much more expensive than IDE is market size. If
more SCSI devices were sold, then the prices would come down. But more
SCSI devices won't be sold until IDE dies.

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				Brian Gerst


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