[geeks] New Server Pictures

[Dan Duncan]

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Kevin wrote:
> workstation class hardware.  If SCSI had been the taken
> the same "commodity" path as that of IDE, i believe that while we
> would have better hardware for other reasons, i also believe that
> the reliability of SCSI that hardware might be significantly less
> so than it is today.  And even though i am about to test out some
> SATA equipment, the aforementioned reason (and others) still puts
> it in the same class as IDE for me.

I think we'd still have server grade and consumer grade drives,
but the huge demand in home markets would have kept the prices
down and the effort that went into bringing IDE up to snuff
could have been spent making SCSI better sooner.

-DanD

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