Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!pacbell!hoptoad!unisoft!gethen!farren
From: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hard disk speed question.
Message-ID: <984@gethen.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jul 88 13:19:50 GMT
References: <6957@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Organization: There's Unix there in Oakland
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In article <6957@cup.portal.com> Michael_J_Dedina@cup.portal.com writes:
>Would a 30ms hard drive give you significantly better performance than a 60 or
>80ms drive on an Amiga (I'd be using it with an A500 and the -MAX- interface)?
>I remember hearing that it wouldn't make much difference on a PC/XT, because
>disk access time was insignificant compared to other bottlenecks in the system.

Well, as a PC owner, I can assure you that it does make a difference, even
in that old and antiquated machine.  On an Amiga, you'd notice the difference
even earlier.  Go for the fast drive.

-- 
Michael J. Farren             | "INVESTIGATE your point of view, don't just 
{ucbvax, uunet, hoptoad}!     | dogmatize it!  Reflect on it and re-evaluate
        unisoft!gethen!farren | it.  You may want to change your mind someday."
gethen!farren@lll-winken.llnl.gov ----- Tom Reingold, from alt.flame