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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Stuart T who wrote (9791)	1/3/2000 12:54:00 AM
From: wily	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Woa! <G> This sucka is fast!! I just got my Maxtor 7200RPM 27GB Diamond Max Plus. The sticker on the box says it will boot Win98 a lot faster than a 5400 RPM drive. I cloned my boot drive to the new disk and it actually seemed to boot slower -- definitely no improvement. But the first program I opened almost blinked onto the screen. Then I ran Windows defragmenter and you can really see the speed improvement there. It's like apples and oranges. Seems like better than twice as fast. Now I wonder how fast a scsi would be... BTW, I was about to order it from buy.com when I thought I'd give my local Staples a call. buy.com was $206 + $7 shipping, Staples was $200 + $16 NYS tax so about even but naturally I didn't want to wait. Staples also has Norton SystemWorks for $50 with a $20 rebate if you are upgrading. wily