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In article <2831@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> xrtnt@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov writes:
> Here's a question:  What kind of improvement in speed would you expect to get
> from using 2 40 meg drives over one 80 meg drive (drive speeds being equal)?

I've found that 2 40 meg drives can be quite zippy, if you tune them right. You
will have to do the installation a couple of times and run something that does
a lot of disk I/O (compiling a few big comp.sources.unix distributions) and
see what works best for you... change in I/O and CPU speed can change the
balance quite a bit. In general, though, putting swap and tmp on different
disks helps a lot.

> It would seem that sticking the swap space by itself (how much is needed?) 

With 4 Meg of RAM, 8 Meg of swap was plenty.

> you juggle your budget and buy a superfast drive for the critical operations.

The EE/CS 11/70 at Berkeley did this, with fixed head drives. 65 users was
possible, but pretty slow even for 1980.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.