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Subject: Fast hard-drive for endgames and game databases

Author: Gordon Rattray

Date: 03:25:12 04/24/03

Hi

I'm considering buying a fast hard-drive.  Probably a Seagate Cheetah or Maxtor
Atlas.  Both SCSI, 15k rpm and 8 Mb caches.  I'm currently using a standard 7200
rpm drive.

- can I expect to see a significant performance gain while any of my chess
programs are hitting endgame tablebases?

- I also frequently search across a 2 million game database.  Can I expect to
see a significant reduction in these search times.  Currently they average a
minute or so.

Gordon

Re: Fast hard-drive for endgames and game databases Robert Hyatt 07:51:04 04/24/03
- Re: Fast hard-drive for endgames and game databases Joshua Lee 15:16:20 04/25/03
Re: Fast hard-drive for endgames and game databases Francesco Di Tolla 06:46:38 04/24/03
Re: Fast hard-drive for endgames and game databases K. Burcham 04:41:09 04/24/03
- Re: Fast hard-drive for endgames and game databases Gordon Rattray 05:43:31 04/24/03
  - Re: Fast hard-drive for endgames and game databases Jay Urbanski 14:55:37 04/25/03
  - Re: Fast hard-drive for endgames and game databases K. Burcham 22:05:19 04/24/03
    - Re: Fast hard-drive for endgames and game databases Robert Hyatt 07:31:15 04/25/03
      - Re: Fast hard-drive for endgames and game databases Tom Likens 11:17:20 04/25/03
        
        Re: Fast hard-drive for endgames and game databases Robert Hyatt 21:22:38 04/25/03
  - Re: Fast hard-drive for endgames and game databases David Dory 12:42:16 04/24/03

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