[iyonix-support] Re: maplin/seagate usb hard drive

In message <4e5c18b87esteve.pampling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          Steven Pampling <steve.pampling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 25 Aug, Dave Higton <davehigton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Let me ask you: how often has your computing experience been spoiled
>> by the speed of the disc system?
> 
> Many times when Windows was thrashing 7 bells out of the disc because it
> ran out of physical memory space to play with.
> 
> Oh, sorry you meant how many times had it happened on a decent operating
> system - in which case the response times of the HP K460 have been a touch
> poor when we had more than 250 users running queries at once but on RISC
> OS systems I don't think disc access times have been the major factor.

I certainly noticed an improvement on my RISC PC when I fitted a newer 
hard drive, but I think that would be access time (rather than 
sustained data transfer), which is only down to the drive itself.


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