forrest@orion.sybase.com (02/21/91)
There's been lots of talk recently about the access times
of the new disks. Those of you, like myself, who bought their
hard disks back when <30ms was very good might be starting to
feel neglected. What I've done is to ignore these speeds and instead
of being tempted to buy a superfast disk I bought more memory
and a good disk cache program (PC-KWIK) instead. With a disk
cache of 6 megabytes it doesn't really make a whole lot of
difference how slow my hard disk is (within reason) since I access
it so seldom. With PC-KWIK I'm getting hit rates of at least 85%
doing the kind of stuff I do.
But, if you do have some extra money and you do want to upgrade
your system I recommend (after buying the memory and disk cache)
buying a bigger disk, one that might not be the fastest. It probably
won't cost as much as a flash disk but you won't notice the speed,
only the capacity.
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Jon Forrest WB6EDM
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