Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!kth.se!sunic!mcsun!ukc!mucs!p4.cs.man.ac.uk!gilbertd From: gilbertd@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Dave Gilbert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn,eunet.micro.acorn Subject: Re: SCSI on the A3000/Hard Disc Price Moan/Beebug Message-ID: Date: 20 Mar 91 08:40:47 GMT References: <2564@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk> Sender: newsman@cs.man.ac.uk Followup-To: comp.sys.acorn Lines: 24 I would just like to agree with the comments on the expensive prices of SCSI boards for the Arc - an SCSI controller IC as advertised in the RS catalogue is about #10.00 (pounds ) - so #100+ is just taking advantage of peoples willingness to pay! IDE drives only need a few buffers and a bit of software to interface as I understand it - so those should be relativly cheap. The worst thing is the actual price of the drives - large capacity drives could be as much as twice the prices in the PC world (have a look in the back of something like Computer Shopper - theres companies specialising in hard drives of all shapes and sizes). We had to buy an Acorn hard drive - because thats the only one that we could get maintanence on - #600 for 20Mb - that is expensive. While I'm on the subject does anyone have experience of these removable 40+Mb drives - I'm thinking about buying one. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Dave Gilbert - gilbertd@p4.cs.man.ac.uk - The MTBF of a piece of equipment - - G7FHJ@GB7NWP - is inversly proportional to its - ------------------------------------------- importance -