TheMobRules wrote:You know, I've been wondering for a while what's the deal with the prices of SCSI adapters (such as 50 to 68 pin)... they don't seem that rare or technologically advanced to command such high prices. It just seems so random, are those made of solid gold or something? 🤣
Exactly!
I'm an adapters & converters are my daily bread kind of guy. I dealt and shopped for adapters and converters my entire IT life, so I'm very familiar with them.
When I first googled SCSI to IDE converters and saw the prices it felt like, for example, I bought vegetables my entire life, ranging between $1 and $10 dollars/pound, and then all of the sudden for just 1 type of vegetable you find the price is like 80 dollars per pound!
Or as if you enter an electronic store, you walk through the departments, TVs, smartphones, DVDs, refrigerators.... and.... WHAAT? What's that butcher doing selling mortazza and ham besides the Wi-Fi routers shelf???
It totally feels like it doesn't belong there!
In my opinion, here's the reason:
What do these converters do? Allow to use IDE drives on SCSI devices.
IDE devices are pretty common.
But if you have a SCSI device, you have a device that eons ago was a pro/super-pro thing (file servers, workstations, high-end PCs, etc.).
So, like 25 years ago you must have been rich!!!
So, hey, you're still rich! And you NEED to use IDE stuff with your super-rich-pricey (25 years ago) device!
So, hey, these converters are the ONLY solution for you, you're stuck in a corner, you have no alternatives, and you need it!
So, hey, I can ask you whatever the heck I want!
There: pure exploiting.
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