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From: kearns@garfield.columbia.edu (Steve Kearns)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: QuickDrive, the External RAMdisk(s)
Message-ID: <1448@garfield.columbia.edu>
Date: Mon, 14-Apr-86 22:09:40 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 14 22:09:40 1986
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Summary: external ramdisks are stupid

I fail to see the attraction of external ramdisks.  For only a little more
money you can get internal memory that can be used as a ramdisk or as 
program memory.  Also, the next crop of hard disk drives that will hook up
to the SCSI port will be cheap and fast enough to kill any advantage the 
external ramdisk has in terms of speed or backup in case of program error.  

-steve