Author: Francesco Di Tolla
Date: 06:46:38 04/24/03
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On April 24, 2003 at 06:25:12, Gordon Rattray wrote: >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 guess htat it will depend on the seek time as well. >- 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. Well this can be too much oor not, it depends on what kind of sercheas you're doing. I guess the most important factor is the software you're using. regards Franz
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