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To: Spots who wrote (1843)	8/1/1998 10:37:00 PM
From: Street Walker	Respond to of 14778

Storage Review ATA Drive Roundup - Summer 1998 August 98 Storage Review reflects on the all the reviewed ATA drives since the last ATA roundup. Find out which drive family has been awarded the Storage Review's Summer Pick! Most Recent Update: 08/01/98 06:55:34 PM storagereview.com click on FEATURE Anyone prefer the 2nd place IBM 7200rpm because of its is 14.4 gigs over the 10 gig drive who got the #1 position? Comparing the two, it looks like the IBM doesn't perform as well as the #1 pick in Win NT. Who would go with the #1 pick or the #2 pick? Regards, S.W.

To: Spots who wrote (1843)	8/2/1998 1:08:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

>>At some point, you have to figure out what you have to back up.<< My first preference is to backup everything. Making decisions gives me a headache <g> Assuming backup media of adequate size, is it realistic to backup an entire drive? Two gig is not the question. What do we do with large drives? We are probably just passing 14 gig drives on the way to much larger drives. Information will have to be in bite size units. Can we do it with one large C drive and organize with directories or do we need to organize on separate drives/partitions? I know this is old territory...not asking for answers. I am still pondering this for my own design. BUT no matter how you cut it, you're better off with the bigger drives in the end. I agree bigger is better in most situations. Why not a high performance operations drive? Why not a 10000 RPM drive for the OS and primary programs? This drive could be 2 or 4 GB. I would not want to go much larger for cost considerations. The large capacity drives could be used for archival applications. If one were too max out RAM would a high performance drive make a difference? With 512 MB RAM and NT caching would there be any difference between a slow harddrive and a fast harddrive? ( not considering boots and file transfers) Zeuspaul