[Gllug] SCSI Cards.

[Bruce Richardson]

On 1/9/02, 4:35:20 PM, tet at accucard.com wrote regarding Re: [Gllug] SCSI 
Cards. :


> >Is it purely historical accident and economies of scale (think VHS/Beta)
> >or are SCSI systems inherently more expensive to manufacture?

> No, AFAIK, it's mostly just that manufacturers could target SCSI
> at servers, and hence could milk corporate wallets for all they
> were prepared to pay. The actually circuitry accounts for very
> little of the cost of a drive, for example, and modern drives are
> the same basic chassis with some IDE or SCSI circuitry slapped on,
> depending on which market they're aimed for.

That's true.  Ignore my inherently - on the scale they are sold nowadays 
it is trivial.  They're not going to change it, either, they have a nice 
thing going.  Aren't many aspects of PC computing these days where you 
can get away with such a nice price differential.

-- 

Bruce

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