Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!usc!apple!agate!sprite.Berkeley.EDU!ss From: ss@sprite.Berkeley.EDU (Srinivasan Seshan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware Subject: Re: IBM PS/2 Model 55SX Message-ID: <1990Dec11.211404.26287@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 11 Dec 90 21:14:04 GMT References: <16302@brahms.udel.edu> <1104@pyuxe.UUCP> <6272@mace.cc.purdue.edu> <1990Dec5.231442.23445@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <1990Dec06.165102.12527@groucho> Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator) Reply-To: ss@sprite.Berkeley.EDU (Srinivasan Seshan) Organization: U.C. Berkeley Sprite Project Lines: 32 In article <1990Dec06.165102.12527@groucho>, martyz@groucho writes: |> In article <1990Dec5.231442.23445@sbcs.sunysb.edu> altman@sbstaff2.cs.sunysb.edu (Jeff Altman) writes: |> >Slower than a fast 386, butthat is expected. |> > |> So far no one has mentioned the speed of the hard drive. I have a 55sx on |> my desk here at work, and I am very dismayed by the SLOW response of the |> hard disk. It makes Windows a real drag to work with. |> |> Don't think I'm spoiled by a faster machine at home, either. My home machine is a cheap 286 clone with a (supposedly) slow hard disk and a clone VGA card. |> There is no competition for the title of Preferred Machine: I'd rather work |> at home. |> |> Marty |> |> -- |> Marty Zimmerman |> Computer Services |> University of Idaho |> or You must have the 30mb hard drive model. It is a 30mb, 40ms, ST-506 drive. Not very exciting. However, the model with the 60mb hard drive is much better. It is 27ms, ESDI. Quite a good performer. I have no complaints about it. Srini Seshan