Martha.Schaefer@f421.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Martha Schaefer) (02/25/91)
About 10 days ago, I posted the following question:
I'd like to ask people for some free advice. :) I am the happy owner
of a cube, recently upgraded to '040 and 2.0, with 8 Mb ram, an OD, and
a 40 Mb swap disk. My question is this: for best performance, am I
likely to be better off by installing a (at least 210 Mb) hard disk, or
by adding 4 - 8 Mb of ram? Actually two questions, the other being:
If I get the hard disk, what are the specs necessary for it to fit
inside the cube, and will I have to remove the current swapdisk?
I received several replies which, remarkably, all agreed! Everyone said I
should get a hard drive first (and more RAM as soon after as I could manage).
Basically, the access time of the optical drive is something like 90 ms, while
hard drives these days are running closer to 15 ms.
I did get a hard drive this week, a 210 Mb Quantum from Alliance Peripheral
Systems (1-800-233-7550). It formatted to 199 Mb, JUST enough for the system
2.0 extended, and required nothing fancy to install. It is -much- faster than
the OD. The price was less than $850.
Thanks again for the info.
--
Martha Schaefer, Martha.Schaefer@f421.n109.z1.fidonet.org
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blkcat.fidonet.org and Fidonet 1:109/401garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett) (02/25/91)
In article <3674.27C89A26@blkcat.fidonet.org> Martha.Schaefer@f421.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Martha Schaefer) writes: > >I did get a hard drive this week, a 210 Mb Quantum from Alliance Peripheral >Systems (1-800-233-7550). It formatted to 199 Mb, JUST enough for the system >2.0 extended, and required nothing fancy to install. It is -much- faster than >the OD. The price was less than $850. > Hmmm... ~ $850 for 210MB works out to approximately $4 per megabyte. Has anyone seen any better prices for that size of drive? People have been quoting prices of ~ $1400 for a 710MB Fujitsu which works out to $2 per megabyte. 1.7 X the cost for 3.5 X the storage. I think I'd better save a little while longer :-). -- John Garnett University of Texas at Austin garnett@cs.utexas.edu Department of Computer Science Austin, Texas