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To: Philip Geiger who wrote (7083)	5/26/1999 2:07:00 PM
From: Paul Schmidt	Respond to of 11417

Phil, I'm rather more suspicious of the ability of current hard drives to cope with these sort of data volumes. Most people would have hard drives in the 6-10 Gbyte range if they bought their computers in the past 2 years, and possibly 0-6 Gbytes free disk space (depending if they're into computer games or not!). That will be eaten away in no time unless some mighty fine disk management tool has been built as part of the software controls of the system. The limiting step in the data flux is also likely to be the hard drive: 10Mb/sec on average I seem to recall. Anybody with any other figures? Paul