Hello Alan.

09 Jun 06 10:01, you wrote to me:

 RT>> tho I am wondering if sata hdd's are really all that much faster
 RT>> than ide's, probably are, but due to the jump in processor speed,
 RT>> the "hdd bottleneck" appears to be the same ...

 AI> They do seem to be from what I have seen although everything needs to
 AI> be upto speed for that to be any good.

Good ...

 AI> My amd64 is a cheapy, bottom of the line (still works wonders though)
 AI> and I was very suprised the first time I did an install at the speed
 AI> that things were written to disk. It looks to me to be about 1/3
 AI> faster than my P4 with like sized EIDE (I think) HDs.

Understood ...

 AI> I'm going to put MBSE back on that amd64 when I can get all the files
 AI> sorted in such a way that I don't loose anything important.

You shouldn't have taken it off in the first place ... 

Russell

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