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To: Street Walker who wrote (1142)	6/6/1998 9:33:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) of 14778

Hard Drive: IBM 4.3($168) - 6.4($189) - 8.4($254). Still trying to decide. Will a bigger one make my system work better if I have plenty of RAM? The 8.4 does have an improved head. If your hard disc is anywhere near full you will notice a performance hit. Anything over 80 percent full I would consider too much. That said 4 GB for an operating system and trading software a spread sheet and word processor should be more than enough. ( no historical stock data, saved charts or graphics programs) Even the good ones fail. How long are you willing to be out of business and how much time are you willing to spend reloading software and reconfiguring from scratch? I suggest a backup solution. Best and my recommendation. Get two 4 GB hard discs ( Maxtors are $140 each Price Watch, or stick with delicious IBM) Use one as your operational disk. Use drive copy to make a duplicate ready to use fully functional working hard disc. If the first one fails or your configurations become corrupted for whatever reason, boot the system, go into the ASUS bios and change the boot drive. You should be up and running in the time it takes to boot your system. Not so good and doesn't save you much. Go for the 8 GB drive. Partition it and use drive image to backup the C drive to the D drive. Keep a copy of the backup on the D partition of your working machine and send a copy to another computer on the network. The restoration process will be significantly longer than that in option one but no where near as long as no option.

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