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From: pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: ok fellow mac geeks, what's up here?
Message-ID: <1991May17.134146.7245@mmm.serc.3m.com>
Date: 17 May 91 13:41:46 GMT
References: <1991May16.161104.13548@aero.org>
Reply-To: pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby)
Organization: 3M - St. Paul, MN  55144-1000 US
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In article <1991May16.161104.13548@aero.org> brad@aerospace.aero.org (Bradley A. West) writes:
>I've been puzzled by something for a couple of weeks now, so I
>thought I'd post for a response.
>Here's the setup:
>
>Mac #1 (home):
>	SE/30, sys 6.0.5, RasterOps ColorBoard264, 8Megs memory,
>	40Meg internal HD, 105Meg LaCie external HD
>
>On the IIsi, a 256 colour StartupScreen flashes to the screen quickly
>in one fell swoop; however on my SE/30, the same picture paints more
>slowly (1.5 - 2 seconds) from top to bottom.
>Why the difference? 

The first thing that strikes me is 'SLOW HARD DISK'.  I have the same
setup as yourself on my home machine and just recently replaced the Sony
40 meg internal with a Quantum 105 (yep, the fire sale priced ones!).
Now _everything_ is faster; booting, starting programs, opening folders,
etc.  The speed of the drive is noticeably different from the Sony 40.

  Paul

p.s. The advertising for the Q105's being 12 ms appears to be HYPE, at
least in my experience with one running DiskManager Mac 2.25 from
OnTrack Systems....
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