Speaking of 8g UDMA disks, Byte this month had a disk comparison thing, and the top rated disk was the Maxtor 8.4g DiamondMax. This was against SCSI disks too, rated running Adaptec's ThreadMark benchmark no less. That baby can be had for just over $300 on the net, <$40 a gig. It's nuts, cdrw and tape can't beat that by much. I don't think SCSI for disks is going to be easy to revive, if Adaptec hasn't got other irons in the fire it might get tough for them. People are going to be building RAID EIDE/UDMA controllers for stuff the chipset won't handle, the price will be hard to beat. Promise Fastrack is out there already, plus a couple others, though I don't think they got it quite right yet.
Disks must be a really ugly business to be in, the competition is fierce. Like in memory, motherboards, video, even processors, everything about PC's except... Never mind.
Cheers, Dan. |
