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From: siegel@endor.uucp (Rich Siegel)
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Subject: Re: seeking impressions about Daystar's SCSI PowerCard
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Date: 15 Dec 90 17:56:03 GMT
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In article <1990Dec15.024819.17630@verity.com> anders@verity.com (Anders Wallgren) writes:
>I haven't had any experiences with this particular card, but I have

	Obviously. :-)

>one or two things to say about SCSI-cache cards in general (I don't
>know if the DayStar card is just a cache card or not): Don't get one
>if you're hoping it will speed up your compiles, because they don't.
>If you don't believe this, try the cheaper alternative: turn your
>Control Panel cache way up and watch your performance go down.

	I've been a beta-site for the Daystar board for the past
few months, and my compile times have gone from 25 minutes down to
around 7 minutes for some fairly large projects. Other boards may not
work (I haven't tried them), but this one does.

R.


 Rich Siegel	Symantec Languages Group  Internet: siegel@endor.harvard.edu

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