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Subject: Re: Is there a limit on our ability to compute endgame tablebases?

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 15:49:04 05/28/02

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On May 28, 2002 at 17:23:12, Russell Reagan wrote:

>What kind of a hard drive would you need for these kinds of things? SCSI?
>Firewire? Also, what size hard disks would it need to be? 100GB? 160GB? There
>are 180 GB SCSI drives for $999, and 160 GB firewire drives for $318.
>
>Russell


All the FireWire drives I've seen (I actually own 2 myself) are just ATA drives
in a box with some circuitry that converts the wire protocol to FireWire.  I
assume that means they suffer the same drawbacks as ATA drives, if not worse.
(But for my Mac, both internal ATA drives and external FireWire drives are a
breath of fresh air after 14 years of wrangling with internal and external SCSI
drives.)



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