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To: Ken Adams who wrote (4414)	6/14/1998 8:32:00 PM
From: gonzongo	Respond to of 11149

"Is this going to result in the best performance I can expect given the equipment I run? I certainly hope so, as it's what I have <G>. Ken " Well Ken you answered your own question(gg) I mentioned specifically 2 physical drives because... being totally non- technical means that the rest of this paragraph is pure BS...... because the little read heads- like the arms on a phonograph have to access two diffent locations- If you have 2 drives- you have two little arms swinging back and forth- If you have one physical drive- there is only one arm and that arm gets mighty tired (gg) I am sure that that is technically wrong but believe me- I took the time to benchmark it and having diskbuff- the historic data up to 3-31-98 on a separate drive- makes things faster. As I also said I didn't believe the teckie(sp?) who told me - probably Sean - so I tried it both ways. g

To: Ken Adams who wrote (4414)	6/14/1998 9:09:00 PM
From: TechTrader42	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 11149

Ken: You wrote: "I run 2 drives. One is a small 350MB thing with most of my programs on it. The other is a 6.4gb that is partitioned into four drives. I put QP2 program on one of these partitions (nothing else there) and I put the data(Diskbuff)on another partition (also nothing else there)." I may be wrong about this, but it's my understanding that you get the best performance if you put the program on one hard drive and the data (diskbuff) on another hard drive. You won't get the same result if you use two different partitions on the same hard drive. In other words, it would be best to put the QP2 program on the 350 MB drive (if there's room left) and the data on one of the partitions of the 6.4 gig drive. Performance does improve, but the scanning program is fast, and you'll still get good results if you leave the data and the program on the same hard drive. Brooke