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

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (2961)	10/15/1998 8:42:00 PM
From: Clarence Dodge	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

ZP You would not use a 4-8 gig primary partition. You could divide a primary 8 GB harddrive into four 2GB partitions. Or you could use two 4GB partitions and make use of compression. I'm thinking, for this machine, 4-8 gig for for the entire primary drive. I just don't think I'llneed larger for a trading machine. Whats to save? Records ( Excel & Quicken )stay on the MAc. Two 8's would be affordable. But thats my limit for Hdd expediture. Less $$ would be better for the smaller drives that I need. Clarence

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (2961)	10/15/1998 11:08:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

All, Obviously you can't mirror the 4-8G HD on the 1 or 2 G cart. You can create disk images that span multiple disks. I have tested the creation and restoration of this under Drive Image 2.0 with NT and 95. If you only have 1 computer a Parallel Port isn't a good choice. If you own more than 1 computer or work on friends/families computers or consult Parallel ports Drives are essential despite there slow speed. Given the concern with syquest, the zip looks attractive. Don't know what the current street price is. If you a got a KOT Drive and removable Cart drive I would probably get a CDRW for a daily data backup device. CDR & CDRW might not sound all that enticing Clarence but I use mine daily for all sorts of tasks. Extremely useful for porting data/programs to other computers since most now have CD. Decisions, decisions, decisions.... Sean