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Offline Franko

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Re: SCSI Hard Drive prices
« on: January 04, 2011, 02:06:33 AM »
SCSI drives always were more expensive than IDE, and most manufactures these days tend to only do IDE & SATA...

Here in the UK most stores (even online) only do IDE & SATA, it's quite difficult to find SCSI drives and when you do the prices are ridiculous when you compare them to IDE/SATA... :(

I spoke to Seagate about 4 months ago when I was looking for some new 500GB IDE HDs and IDE/ATAPI DVD burners and was told by them that they have already begun to phase out the production of IDE HDs & CD/DVD drives in favour of SATA drives.

The chap I spoke to said in less than two years time the only IDE/ATAPI drives available will be old stock or second hand stuff if you can find it. I never asked about SCSI as I'm not sure if Seagate even manufacture them anymore...

When the guy asked why I couldn't just use SATA devices and I explained it was for the Amiga, well I totally lost him at that point... :)
« Last Edit: January 10, 2011, 12:47:40 AM by Franko »