On 2009-10-27, Dave Smith > wrote:

> that... $430 for the disk. It is hard to find a hard disk these days
> that doesn't have at least 1000 times that capacity for half the price.

Have you looked at scsi drives, lately? Used to be scsi drives were
about the same prices as the old parallel ata drives. Then, sata
(serial) drives came along and took off in both capacity and speed
leaving scsi to hold down the reliability fort (servers). Last time I
looked, large/fast scsi drives were absurdly expensive.

nb