George White wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 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

 GW> It depends just how slow the old drive is... I wouldn't try it 
 GW> with the oldest working drive I have here - a 30 MB RLL drive 
 GW> 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..

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

These were Conner drives.  I don't know the specs offhand,  but they were not
all that hot to begin with,  as I recall.

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