allyn%Nosc@sdcsvax.UUCP (02/08/84)
From: Allyn Fratkin <sdcsvax!allyn@Nosc> We will be ordering four XTs in the next week or so. However, I have heard that the drive that comes with the XT is not particularly fast, even as 5.25" drives go. We would like to have drives that are as fast as possible as we are going to use at least one as a network server. Would it be better to buy regular PCs and buy hard drives from a third party? Is this possible with the difference between the PC and the XT? We would like to hear stories, good or bad, of experiences with hard drives around 10 Mb from outside vendors. Include the min, max and average seek times for your disk, please. Also, does anyone know the seek times for the IBM hard disk? The IBM Product Center (and most salesmen in general) seem to have no idea. Thanks, Allyn Fratkin UCSD Pascal Project U.C. San Diego