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From: mpatnode@polyslo.UUCP (Mike Patnode)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 20 Meg versus 40 Meg
Message-ID: <1192@polyslo.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 88 19:07:37 GMT
References: <950@its63b.ed.ac.uk> <19754@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: mpatnode@polyslo.UUCP (Mike Patnode)
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In article <19754@bu-cs.BU.EDU> madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost) writes:
>In article <950@its63b.ed.ac.uk> dougie@its63b.ed.ac.uk (Dougie Nisbet) writes:
>>We are intending buying a PC clone with 40 Megabytes of disk space.
>>Is it more sensible to buy 2 X 20 Meg, or 1 X 40 Meg drives? I have
>>heard rumours that the 2X20's run faster than 1X40. Does anyone know if
>>this is in fact the case? Any other reasons for/against would also be
>>appreciated.
>
>This is a hard question to answer, but here are some things that may
>help you choose.
	.. many pros and cons concerning drives deleted...

Actually this is very easy to answer:

	The seagate 4051 is a 40Meg Harddisk wich runs at 39ms.(access time)
	If you partition the disk into two 20 Meg disks it then
	runs at 28ms.  There is the speed you want on the security of
	one disk.  If your like me and you don't want to have to switch
	between C: and D: all the time try:
	JOIN D: \USR
	and then you have a disk mounted as a file system.
	For the software that doesn't like joined disks IE:NU and QDOS
	use: JOIN D: /D before calling these programs.

	Hope this helps.

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