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Re: Gigabyte drives information

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From: John Kheit
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
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From: szatrows@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit)
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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
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