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From: callahan@mimsy.umd.edu (Jack Callahan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Plus Hardcard II XL - 9ms
Message-ID: <31813@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: 21 Mar 91 17:17:49 GMT
References: <1991Mar21.011145.22608@unixg.ubc.ca> <1991Mar21.015651.23998@unixg.ubc.ca>
Reply-To: callahan@mimsy.umd.edu (Jack Callahan)
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <1991Mar21.015651.23998@unixg.ubc.ca> twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong) writes:
>In article <1991Mar21.011145.22608@unixg.ubc.ca> twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong) writes:
>>I've been told that this Plus Hardcard II XL will do 9ms. Is this true?
>>But there was also something about it needing a DisCache. Does anyone
>>know what that's about? Does anyone have any info on this product?
>>Know where there's a review? have actually purchased such a beast?
>>Thank you.
>>
>I just called my local dealer that sells Hardcards and the price for
>this Hardcard II XL is no more expensive than a normal harddrive.
>And with an access time like 9ms, this seems like the way to go.

I posted recently about my good experences with the Hardcard IIXL.  The
documents do claim that it has a 9ms access time, but I do not have
any benchmarking results of my own.  The card does have a 64K disk cache
on board and it seems VERY fast in comparision to my other drive (an
ST251 Snail, but heck, it's disk space!).  It makes Windows 3.0 apps
really fly considering I have only 2MB of RAM.

-- jack