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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Experiences with 100MB disks
Keywords: Hard disk, 100MB, IDE
Message-ID: <2726@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 90 17:50:34 GMT
References: <1990Dec20.184703.28077@nas.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <1990Dec20.184703.28077@nas.nasa.gov> lohia@sun226.nas.nasa.gov (Shri Lohia) writes:

| I am the market to buy a Hard Disk around 100MB preferably  with IDE
| Interface. I would like to hear for you all the suggestions, experiences,
| pitfalls. I am going to run UNIX  on 386/33 Cache , so I prefer it to be
| very fast.

  Connor, Seagate, and Maxtor all seem to be shipping IDE drives in that
range, all about 16ms seek, all over 100k hours MTBF. Among those brands
you can probably shop by price.

  For what it's worth, I think you're using a disk which is way too
small, and note that a disk with with more heads will be effectively
faster, since it does a seek less often. You probably want 150MB for
UNIX, plus any DOS if you run it.
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bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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