Hi Roy,

On 31-Oct-99, Roy J. Tellason wrote to George White:


 RJT> George White wrote in a message to Linda Proulx:

 GW>> The ideal situation if you have a smallish old drive is to use it
 GW>> as a dedicated swap drive.

 RJT> Yes?  I remember bringing this up some time back,  and at least
 RJT> some opinions were to the effect that the slower speed of an
 RJT> older drive would be a disadvantage in this case

It depends just how slow the old drive is...
I wouldn't try it with the oldest working drive I have here - a 30 MB
RLL drive with a _70_ mS average seek time.

 RJT> I *do* have some 170M drives around,  and should probably look at
 RJT> putting one into the OS/2 box here,  if that's a good plan..

It's always worth a try. If it's a WD AC1170, it's specified as having
a "sub 13 mS" average seek, 4 mS track to track, and is 3322 rpm.
This should compare reasonably, as a dedicated swap drive, with a
modern drive with it's 7-10 mS seek and 5000 - 7200 rpm (yes, the data
transfer rate will be about half, but the over-riding factor is
normally the seek time).

George

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