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Re: [ECS] SR and the HD ckeyes Thu, 28 Oct 1999 19:38:49 -0700

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Bill,

You're right. The last drive I bought for a PC was
$699 for a 4 gig. They probably will give them away
with a bag of groceries before long.


Carl

Bill Walters wrote:

> Well, only a guess (2 years)...  I plan conservatively and you can pick up
> almost any 4 gb drive for less than $100 now.....  In 2-4 years, stores will
> be giving 'em away, just to get rid of them... ;<}
>
> All kidding aside, the only point I wanted to make was to back up your full
> ECS system on a weekly basis.  If your HD fails, then you drop in a new HD,
> fdisk it, format it, and if you have the "right" backup stuff, then you can
> restore to your "new" drive and be back in business, with a minimum of
> "pain".
>
> .....and no, I haven't taken my own advice here.....  But I'm working on
> it!!!
>
> Bill Walters
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Carl Keyes <carlkeyes@hotmail.com>
> To: <ecs-list@netbloc.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 3:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [ECS] SR and the HD
>
> > Thanks, Dario and Bill.
> >
> > Every 2 years. I'll have to think about that.
> >
> > Carl
> >
> >
> > >From: Dario Greggio <adpm@ipsnet.it>
> > >Reply-To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
> > >To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
> > >Subject: Re: [ECS] SR and the HD
> > >Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 20:45:58 +0200
> > >
> > >Carl Keyes ha scritto:
> > > >
> > > > One re-occurring thing I've noticed with SR
> > > > recognition on my machine is that it seems
> > > > to make a huge difference in response time
> > > > whether the hard drive is spinning or not.
> > > > The first command input may be delayed as
> > > > much as 5 sec. while the drive spins up to speed.
> > > > After that there is no delay.
> > > > Can, or is it even a good idea to force the drive to
> > > > always be spinning?
> > >
> > >I got the same problem and I decided to let it run all the time (e.g.
> > >disable power-saving)
> > >--
> > >Ciao,
> > >Dario
> > >--
> > >ADPM Synthesis sas - Torino
> > >--
> > >http://www.geocities.com/adpm99
> > >
> >
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