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To: Street Walker who wrote (1804)	7/29/1998 10:24:00 PM
From: Dave Hanson	Respond to of 14778

Ram vs HDD reply--Sorry SW, I could have been clearer here. I agree with Sean that going from a 5400 to 7200 HDD will almost surely have a bigger impact on performance than going above 128 RAM in NT, and above 64 RAM in 95/98. I also agree with with ZP that more is generally to be gained from, say, two 7 gig drives than from one 14 gig drive (redundancy, extra configuration options, etc.) Note that except for Seagate, which runs quite hot and isn't a great performer anyway (see storagereview.com), all currently shipping 7200 drives are at least 10 gig, as well as more expensive than 5400 drives. I'm cheap, and somewhat fussy about noise and heat. I also don't need every last marginal performance increase. For me, the quicker 5400 drives seem sufficient. If I got reports of noticable performance increases with the 7200 drives under an NT system with lots of RAM, I'd reconsider. With 10-15% increases on only the disk benchmarks (and significantly less for overall system benchmarks), I'm doubtful that this would occour for most users. Hope this helps, Dave

To: Street Walker who wrote (1804)	7/30/1998 9:09:00 AM
From: Sean W. Smith	Respond to of 14778

I would take the 14 gigger myself. 1 drive versus 2 means to me less power, heat, and space consumption. Remeber you only get 4 EIDE devices without adding extra cards. I say this because I am always using tons of diskspace. So you're saying for the price/performance: 7200 ide HD and 64 meg RAM is better than 5400 HD and 124 RAM? Yes for any normal benchmark. How much ram do you need??? have you measured it. To get a accurate measurement you can use the system monitor. first you will need to download a program that limits your cache size. Otherwise windows # will be wrong. There is no need to guess how much memory you need. I'll se if I can find a URL For a Windows 95 cache size tweaker (there are many). Sean