Hello, Why would all three disks be working at the same time? Once the OS is loaded, it may only occasionally load extra components. Ditto for applications. There used to be a case for putting the swap file on a drive of it's own but with 1GB of memory, it's unlikely one will see any page swaps unless the user runs half a dozen apps at the same time.
My recommendation is to upgrade to a good SCSI disk controller and Ultra-160 drives. In my experience, disk speed is as important as the processor with memory only a problem if you don' t have enough. Lots of excess memory is not going to make the machine faster. Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd. http://www.europa-tech.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 10:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MI-L Hardware Specs As long as you are building a machine, I would suggest that you use three separate hard drives. put the OS on one, the programs on the second, and the data on the third. the first two can be 5 to 10 gig in size (you use the spare space for temp storage and print spooling). The third should be large. this is more efficient and will speed up data transfer (instead of having the head of one HD doing all the work, you have three HD's working independently). You should also have a back up (removable?) hard drive (or two) for long term data storage (just in case your main storage drive goes bad - it is hell when that happens). you did not specify your bus speed/memory speed. there are new memory chips (very expensive) that work at 5 to 10 times the speed (data transfer) of the SDRAM s. figuers --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 3014 --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 3015
