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Article #911Re: Gigabyte drives information
From: John Kheit
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 06:28
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 06:28
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I have the Segate 1.4 gig drive (Wren 8?). Its worked with no problems, so far (knock wod :). I've had it for close to a year (I think). Its relativly quite, not the quitest, its pretty fast, not the fastest, but it is incredibly resiliant! I've had a zillion crashes (can you say 3.0 beta), power outages while moving megs of files (when making the monoLib CD's) and the drive bounce back every time with no problems. I was praising the fsck gods many a time :) The only thing that is a bummer, and its got nothing to do with the drive... is that when you have a drive that big a you move tons of files around the drive starts to get slow because of fragmentation. The kind o fragmentation that just wont go away unless you completly rebuild your drive. I did a rebuild (build disk) and 3.0 now appears to run about 50% faster! I wish that their was somekind of defragmentation software. later, John -- NeXT Campus Consultant---Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |my %^) John Kheit/monoChrome | |fried %-) 173 Westgate Drive | Audix#5512 |brain %>) Edison, NJ 08820-1163 | kheit@hangout.rutgers.edu,szatrows@gandalf.rutgers.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dziuxsolim.rutgers.edu!gandalf.rutgers.edu!szatrows From: szatrows@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Gigabyte drives information Message-ID: <Nov.5.01.28.54.1992.15738@gandalf.rutgers.edu> Date: 5 Nov 92 06:28:55 GMT References: <1992Nov4.010355.12962@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1992Nov5.032946.27374@cs.yale.edu> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 22