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To: GrnArrow who wrote (560)	5/3/1998 4:10:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Respond to of 14778

>> A couple of hard drive questions<< 1)Would the faster rotational speed of the 10.1GB drive provide any significant performance increase with regards to trading software? A faster drive speed should improve the performance of most software. The exception would be a program that runs completely in RAM. Even these programs will use the harddrive when starting or saving. Speed will also be influenced by the amount of RAM you have as a small amount of RAM will increase swapping to the harddrive. Harddrive cache also needs to be looked at from a speed point of view. A slower RPM drive may show better performance if it has a larger cache. As a general rule you will get better performance with the faster drive. I would ask DELL the make and model of the drive they are quoting. You should be given a choice if you ask between several of the major manufacturers. Make sure this is included in your purchase order or they will choose one at random. Once you have the specific drives go to the storage review site for a detailed comparison between drives. storagereview.com 2)What is spindle start time? I could not find a specific reference to this but it must be as you describe considering the 10 and 18 sec speeds. This should only effect your boot time and recovery from harddrive idle mode. 3)The 10.1GB is not compatible with NT operating systems. Since I plan on using 95/98, this doesn't matter to me, but I'm wondering why the drive would not work with that OS. Thanks for any help. There are numerous harddrive barriers. 540 MB, 2 GB and 8 GB +/-. They relate to format structures and or BIOS limitations. Lots of good info at the PC Guide site, Harddisk Size Barriers pcguide.com NT will run on a 10 GB drive (and much much larger). This is probably a DELL thing. They work with specific configurations and do not deviate in my experience. I recently configured a DELL machine on line. I opted for the Appian dual monitor graphics card and Win95. I got a configuration error so I called DELL. They told me that the Appian card will not work in Win 95. I indicated that it would according to Appian. They said "well we do not support it". Zeuspaul