On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Brian Gerst wrote:
> James Sutherland wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > There is one other big difference: PRICE.
>
> The reason SCSI is so much more expensive than IDE is market size. If
> more SCSI devices were sold, then the prices would come down. But more
> SCSI devices won't be sold until IDE dies.
That could be a very long wait: there are plenty of "legacy" IDE drives
out there. It's the usual chicken&egg thing: it won't be popular until
it's got a large market share...
James.
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