#Hard Drive Advice
10-Jan-95 03:40:01
Sb: #181251-#Hard Drive Advice
Fm: Trent Hawkins 73614,533
To: Christopher Tolmie 73657,3335
Chris,
Drive speed has little to do with the chipsets or memory. It's all in the
drive. Usually the higher grade Quantums (ie LPS series etc) are twice as fast
as the lower grade (the ELS series). I have two Quantums on my system, one of
each grade. I get the following numbers
DH0: Quantum ELS85S 990,468 bytes/sec DH1: Quantum LPS240S
GM240S01X 1,913,459 bytes/sec
The 240MB HD has a faster spin rate but it's almost silent as compared to the
85MB HD (the noise from the little beast almost drives me to distraction some
nights <g>). Costs a little more, but worth it in my estimation.
Trent
'Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori'