Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!arrow!mhc
From: mhc@arrow.UUCP (MH Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 20 Meg versus 40 Meg
Message-ID: <268@arrow.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 88 19:56:51 GMT
References: <950@its63b.ed.ac.uk> <16800198@clio> <1666@van-bc.UUCP>
Reply-To: mhc@arrow.UUCP (59461-MH Cox)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner
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In article <1666@van-bc.UUCP> skl@van-bc.UUCP (Samuel Lam) writes:
>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

Also, I've discovered that is you put all compilers, linkers, etc. on one
disk and your source files on the other, your compile times will decrease
(compared to one disk).  I assume this is caused by reducing the number
of seeks that must be performed.

-- 
Michael H. Cox
(201) 580-8622