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Subject: Re: Fast hard-drive for endgames and game databases

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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