said:
>I hope your info is much more current than mine.
:-)
>The
>last time I checked prices on the WD Raptors (supposed
>to be high-performance drives, and the SATAs with the
>longest warranty), inexpensive was not the word that
>came to mind.
You need to compare apples to apples. They are still significantly less
expensive that a SCSI drive of the same capacity.
>If there are better, or more cost
>effective choices than the Raptors, I'd like to hear
>about them.
Better depends on your needs. I've got several 250GB IDE drives around
here that all cost betwen $30 and $50. I can't think of a much better
choice for test boxes and secondary data dump drives.
Steven
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