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From: asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth)
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Subject: Re: HD cost vs. RAM cost (was Re: SCSI Ram Disks)
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Date: 13 Mar 90 01:15:31 GMT
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In article <1167@madnix.UUCP> jason@madnix.UUCP (Jason Blochowiak) writes:

>	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.

Ain't seen NOTHING yet!  Gigabyte drives, yes, 1000+Meg!, for PC's are
soon to be hitting the market and I recall a price for one of them being
around $2500.  This was in PC Week I think.  Granted not all the
companies were that cheap, but even at $3000 or so, that's SIGNIFICANTLY
cheaper per meg than anything currently out there.  A 20Meg drive would
have to run $60-80 to compete against that.  Course, $3000 is alot of
money, but on a $/meg basis, these suckers are CHEAP!

>	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.

Seriously doubt it as the jumper blocks are hardcoded to specific memory
sizes and the manual says that ONLY those configurations can be used.
Besides using 4MB SIMMS would only allow you to put two on the board, if
it were possible.  Wouldn't be gaining anything, and it'd probably be
lot more expensive than just getting regular 1MB SIMMS, at least
currently I would think.

-k