Re: ULTRA ATA/100 announced

From: Gérard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr)
Date: Tue Jun 06 2000 - 01:45:01 EST


On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, [ISO-8859-1] Gérard Roudier wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Stephen Torri wrote:
> >
> > > If we get ATA/100 then why buy SCSI?
> >
> > For better performance, superior reliability and flexibility ATA lacks by
> > design.
>
> Really and the $5 difference in the final electronics on the bottom of the
> drive justifies this statement? All other parts are shared and
> "IDENTICAL", this may be a FYI for you.

All parts that are identical are good, all that are different make them
inferior.

The success of ATA proceeds the same way as the success of M$ O/Ses.
Users pay for it generally unintentionnally and just use it or
want to use it because they have it.

What about if PCs were sold with an inflatable doll ? ;-)
For my part, I do prefer the authentic. :o)

The overcost of SCSI compared ATA to is due to IDE being shoe-horned to
user with motherboards. By the way, I have had to pay for IDE on all my
MBs and I donnot use it.

In my opinion, if IDE/ATA is allowed to be soldered in standard on
motherboards, then Microsoft should be permitted to put everything they
want in Windows kernel.

  Gerard.

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