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Technology Stocks : CYRIX / NSM -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Craig Freeman who wrote (31880)	4/29/1999 5:23:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 33344

Craig, I am willing to wait and see what the new IBM ATA/66 drives will offer. They are available at NECX: necxdirect.necx.com (I am not sure if the link will work) The new ATA/66 drives are up to 223Mbs, but stil short of Maxtor. Maxtor is only ATA/33, 512K or 1024K of cache, IBMs are 2048. I don't know how much difference the 33 vs 66 and the size of the cache make, since the OS has a much larger and much faster cache, so the cache is probably a non-factor. The speed of the interface over the speed of the drive comes into play with transfer from cache. Let me know if I am missing something. Joe PS: I was just replacing a crashed drives in a NT server I use for testing. 10GB is about 8GB more than I will ever need in this server, so I had no need to spend extra $200 to get additional 10GB.