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

To: Larry J. who wrote (3499)	8/22/1998 10:09:00 AM
From: Gary Korn	Respond to of 5944

UDMA is incorporated on the motherboard and so does not require an add-on card ala ADPT. Hmmmm why not incorporate SCSI onto the motherboard.........INTC? Larry, Thanks. I see your point. Gary Korn

To: Larry J. who wrote (3499)	8/22/1998 3:59:00 PM
From: FuzzFace	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5944

UDMA EIDE and SCSI are both on mobo's (e.g. Iwill), and both are in add-on cards (e.g. Adaptec-SCSI, Promise-UDMA EIDE) Go to Frys and check them out. EIDE is cheaper, both in controller and disk drive costs, but SCSI still uses less CPU and is capable of more than 1 concurrent I/O, and thus is the performance leader, and so has predominated on high-end PCs and servers. My opinion: too bad Adaptec was so greedy. They charged too much for SCSI for too long ($300 for an I/O adaptor card - give me a break! Entire SCSI mobo's don't cost that much.) and allowed EIDE to almost reach parity. If they had dropped the price to match EIDE 4 years ago, they would have eliminated it due to superior technology. Now Firewire threatens to do them both in, though it is too early to tell how that will play out. Another Sony & Beta story in the making.