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From: leavens@atari.UUCP (Alex Leavens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Quiry about the reliability of Atari hard disks
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Date: Fri, 6-Mar-87 14:04:36 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  6 14:04:36 1987
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>     I have the opportunity to purchase an Atari 20 Mbyte hard disk for our
>  1040ST.  The drive appears to be in good condition though it comes used and
>  Hard
>  disk appears to be in vogue, wouldn't a large RAM disk in memory serve even
>  better for quiet and fast temporary storage?
> 
   Developing off a ram disc is (IMHO) nice, but asking for trouble.  What
happens if the program you're developing crashes the machine?  Your source
code is history.  what happens if you get a power surge or a blackout?
History.  I much prefer a hard disc.

   I've had an Atari 20 meg hard disc for 1 1/2 years now, and it runs
very reliably.  Be sure to get rev. 8 of the hard disc software if you
get the drive.

--alex @ Atari

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