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From: jason@madnix.UUCP (Jason Blochowiak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: HD cost vs. RAM cost (was Re: SCSI Ram Disks)
Summary: Dave was right
Message-ID: <1167@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 12 Mar 90 08:12:40 GMT
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dcw@lcs.mit.edu (David C. Whitney) writes:
> [Deleted previous comments about pricing, etc.]
>I was talking about a complete HD system. If I open up a MacWEEK or
>Macworld and flip to an ad for a HD, then I see prices of $400 for
>20MB and then it goes up. I was thinking in terms of the average joe
>who doesn't want to build his own. At that price, RAM is about 3 times
>as much per meg as a HD (80ns for roughly $65 these days).

	Oops, you're right about the low end. I guess that when I see 20Mb for
$315, and 80Mb for $495 (just the mech), I don't think that there's much of a
choice... 4 times the capacity for less than double the price. Stick a case
w/ power supply on for, say, $200 (MacZone does this, and assembles, tests,
and formats the thing as well - no, I don't work for them [std. disclaim]).
So, say $500 for 20Mb (yeah, it can be gotten cheaper), and $700 for 80Mb.
At the higher end, there's an 8/1 price advantage over the RAM - my needs
kind of precluded me from looking at the ~2.5/1 price advantage at the
lower end.

	Btw, it does seems as if the HD prices are moving down fairly nicely
as well - the $700 for 80Mb is about what I paid for my 64Mb awhile ago (year,
year and a half? I don't remember). That's roughly 30% increase in capacity
for the same price.

	Speaking of this stuff: Does anyone know if the 4Mb SIMMs can be put
in an OctoRAM card? I'm not interested in doing it at the moment, but I may
be at some point in the future.

>Dave Whitney
>dcw@sun-bear.lcs.mit.edu  ...!mit-eddie!sun-bear!dcw  dcw@athena.mit.edu


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