Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 03:51:26 -0400 From: "Lines, Nick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [lib] smartdrive advantages
>> >> Smartdrv helps improve disk access speeds.. Not by an awful lot though in >> my experience (but then again I've not done many installs on lower specced >> machines ...) >> > You are right, I don't remember it giving big gains in regular work, back > in the DOS days, but improvements during the first phase of NT/2000/XP setup > are HUGE. I am talking at least 5 fold. Without smartdrive you will start > setup one day and finish next! If you set up other machines, you likely > booted with nt/2000 CD. In this case smartdrive is loaded automatically. The really massive difference with smartdrive loaded is in writing multiple small files to a directory. At the start of the winnt install procedure, the percentage bar zips along. Then after a few minutes it slows to a crawl when not using smartdrv. When running smartdrv, it zips along at a fair old rate. Nick. ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
