garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett) (12/18/90)
Looking back through my saved copies of the recent discussions on
third party hard drives that people have used in the NeXT, I find
that many of the articles do not indicate whether or not the drive
may be installed internally in the cube as a boot drive. What
criteria must a drive meet in order to be usable as an internal boot
drive on a NeXT cube (1.0?, 2.0?)?
My second question is: what affect will the 040 have on data throughput
to and from a hard drive. For example, assume a drive with a 16ms access
time offers "acceptable" performance on an 030 cube. What kind of performance
hit could one expect if the same drive were installed in an 040 cube (assuming
the 040 is 3 to 4 times faster than the 030)? I realize that this question
only makes sense if one defines what one means by "performance" - so just
include your definition of performance in your response...
Thanks.
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John Garnett
University of Texas at Austin
garnett@cs.utexas.edu Department of Computer Science
Austin, Texas