Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!van-bc!skl
From: skl@van-bc.UUCP (Samuel Lam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 20 Meg versus 40 Meg
Message-ID: <1666@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 7 Feb 88 09:54:47 GMT
References: <950@its63b.ed.ac.uk> <16800198@clio>
Reply-To: skl@van-bc.UUCP (Samuel Lam)
Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Summary: If one of the two 20 Meg's broke, you can still run on the other one.

In article <16800198@clio>, berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu wrote:
>A single drive has the advantage of occupying less space,
>generating less heat, and consuming less power.

But having two 20 Meg drives instead of a single 40 Meg drive has
the advantage that if one of them ever fails and has to be sent to
the shop for repair, you can still run your system with 20 Meg,
instead of *zero* Meg!  (This, of course, assumes that you have
done proper backups on the drive that went south.)

...Sam
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