I can see your point, but it depends on how you plan to use the hard drive. For my computer at home, I wouldn't want to pay > $1,500 for a hard drive, but for business applications the additional money may be well spent.
What's the excitement all about? Seagate has a 73.4 GB SCSI drive that has better specs than the IBM drive: 10000 rpm and 5.6 ms average seek time, vs. 7800 rpm and 8.5 ms seek time for the IBM. And you can actually buy the Seagate drive for about $1,650! So what if the IBM drive uses glass instead of aluminum!
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I can see your point, but it depends on how you plan to use the hard drive. For my computer at home, I wouldn't want to pay > $1,500 for a hard drive, but for business applications the additional money may be well spent.
What's the excitement all about? Seagate has a 73.4 GB SCSI drive that has better specs than the IBM drive: 10000 rpm and 5.6 ms average seek time, vs. 7800 rpm and 8.5 ms seek time for the IBM. And you can actually buy the Seagate drive for about $1,650! So what if the IBM drive uses glass instead of aluminum!