[Gllug] SCSI Cards.

[Zverina, David]

>> Well, I'm a SCSI bigot; in particular, IDE doesn't support
>> disconnect-reconnect, which is a pain for non-hard disc devices.
>
>Why is IDE cheaper and more popular then?
>I guess they're popular because they're cheaper :) but why are they
>cheaper?
>
>Is it purely historical accident and economies of scale (think VHS/Beta)
>or are SCSI systems inherently more expensive to manufacture?

Inherent. Think winmodem against full modems. Historically this probably
added a lot .... nowadays the manufacturing cost difference is probably not
that great. The pricing now mainly reflects volume and (upper) market
segment.

Cheers,

Dave.

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