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From: rob@prism.TMC.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: help on choosing a hard disk
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Date: 20 Oct 89 13:42:00 GMT
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Nf-From: prism.TMC.COM!rob    Oct 20 09:42:00 1989


>>what he called micropro mother-board with AMI bios; and a miniscribe 3650
>>strained up to 65 mb (the ad I've seen on this HD is 42 mb/61 ms. and only
>>for MFM controller) by using a RLL controller. He claims that the use of
>>the HD for the RLL is absolutely safe. The whole system comes with 20 MHz 
>>cpu,

 >I would suggest installing the fastest hard disk that you can afford.  1:1
 >MFM is fast - but not as fast as the 1:1 RLL or some of the other interface.
 >On a fast machine such as this - it will be a waste of power to limit the
 >disk IO.

 I'd also suggest a disk with an access time of faster than 61ms; that's 
only slightly faster than XT-class disks. If you can, find one with an 
access time below 40 (or preferably 30) ms. A 61ms drive on a 20mhz machine 
will prove a frustrating bottleneck for any disk intensive task.