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Technology Stocks : Adaptec (ADPT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Shibumi who wrote (966)	1/29/1998 1:15:00 PM
From: Andy Hopper	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5944

Shibmui, this is like asking if there are pickup trucks that can carry as much as 18-wheelers. Don't think so. Ultra DMA IDE is designed to do simple jobs like serving the needs of desktop workstations at low cost. Thus you don't see 7 ms access times and 10,000 rpm spindles in these drives. If you want the ABSOLUTELY best performance regardless of cost, by all means buy the very best SCSI drive you can. But be prepared to spend up to twice per MB of IDE. Example, one online vendor is offering a 7 GB Maxtor Ultra DMA for $315. That's 4.5 cents per MB. A Seagate 4.55 GB 10,000 rpm SCSI drive is $685, or 15 cents per MB. A larger, 9.1 GB IBM drive (7200 rpm) is $1299, or 14 cents per MB. Which one would the VAST majority of people buy? Which one would system vendors (e.g., Compaq, Dell) put into their desktop systems? For now, SCSI belongs only in servers. Adaptec clearly understands that. Why weren't they more forthcoming about this exposure las Fall? Andy Hopper