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- From: bigred@vnet.ibm.com (Greg Forney bigred@vnet.ibm.com)
- Message-ID: <19920814.141419.905@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 17:06:39 EDT
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: *** Many important (to me) questions about OS/2 ***
- Reply-To: bigred@vnet.ibm.com (Greg Forney)
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- X-X-From: bigred@vnet.ibm.com (Greg Forney)
- References: <BsxwvA.Eyr@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- <1992Aug14.190421.26238@njitgw.njit.edu>
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- In <1992Aug14.190421.26238@njitgw.njit.edu> David Charlap writes:
- >In article <BsxwvA.Eyr@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> bcrwhims@cayley.uwaterloo.ca (Carsten) writes:
- >>
- >>- I have heard recently that a fast hard-drive makes a difference. Is this
- >> true? In that case, I would love to replace my ridiculous 40M 27ms drive
- >> with a 200M, 12-15ms IDE drive. Any comments? Will this enable me to make
- >> better use of the extra 2M, if I upgrade to 8M?
- >
- >I'd think so. If you don't have enough RAM (and maybe even if you
- >do), OS/2 swaps stuff to the disk. The faster the disk, the quicker
- >this will go. The bigger the disk, the more you can swap.
- >
- My experience is that disk speed is really important even in the
- absence of SWAPPing. If the above disk drive versus 6-8Meg
- memory upgrade were offered to me as "either-or" I'd opt for
- the faster disk.
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- GregF (someday I'll figure out signature files on the Interface I'm on)
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