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To: Jim Patterson who wrote (27210)	1/9/1998 11:04:00 AM
From: Meathead	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Dell sells SCSI mainly on Workstations and Servers not the high volume desktops. There they use EIDE. Adaptec is traditionally stuck at the high end with SCSI which believe it or not, is not technically superior to EIDE in terms of potential capabilities. SCSI is coming under increasing pressure as well. Typical SCSI has a transfer rate of 40Mb/sec whereas UltraDMA EIDE is 33Mb/sec for less than half the cost. Essentially, the cost/performance benefit of SCSI is rapidly deteriorating in the high end destop space. Now DELL sell a lot of >$2000 PC's with SCSI boards Where did you get this? Is this a guess? What does a lot mean? You must look a the real impact... SCSI represents about 10% - 15% of the storage technology world. 90% of all Dell systems do not integrate SCSI on the motherboard and few sell with SCSI adapters. Where Dell does sell SCSI is growing like mad. Unfortunately for Adaptec, Dell, CPQ, etc. get big margins on low volumes of servers and wkstations. As SCSI looses out in the desktop world, Adaptec volumes may decrease. After all, they can't charge more for the same controller just because it's used in a $15,000 server and not a $2000 desktop. Disk drive makers are hurting bad... do you think this might have an impact on Adaptec as well? MEATHEAD