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Subject: Re: disk-drive query - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 19-Dec-83 22:51:05 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 19 22:51:05 1983
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uokvax!andree    Dec 18 16:06:00 1983

/***** uokvax:net.micro / aluxe!david1 /  8:34 pm  Dec 15, 1983 */
What type(s) of applications would require 2 disk-drives?
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Except for things that just won't fit on one drive, none. Anything you
can do on two drives you can do on one.

On the other hand, many of those things will be MUCH slower. The best
example is backing a disk up (a must for all applications). Try backing
up a 200K disk on a 16K machine with one drive. Similar comments apply
to coping files from one disk to another without doing a complete copy.
This may not be possible under some systems.

	<mike