[geeks] New 2.5" SCSI HDs???

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Jan 20, 2007, at 4:43 AM, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
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> But would it really be more expensive?  Isn't it possible that it would
> actually lower costs to have a single interface standard?
>

I can't really answer this question, because I don't know.  But don't 
you think that a large computer OEM that hires people to know this kind 
of stuff, would have chosen the cheapest implementation? If a cheap or 
easy unification were possible, I think it would have been pushed for.

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> There should also be additional savings by no longer having to split
> your R&D and production resources between two different interfaces.
>
Not really the computer OEM's problem - that's Seagate's problem as far 
as they are concerned :-)