Author: margolies,marc
Date: 10:07:21 05/01/04
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the current standard for some drives in windows is SATA150. westerndigital 'raptor' drives which spin at 10k hold about 76gigs (but are raidable) and now cost about 220 usd ( i paid 270 for mine 3 months ago) will half your access time to under 5 millisecond per search. this can be an additional drive on your machine just for tablebases-- one needn't boot from it. If your motherboard does not support the serial ata standard, PCI raid cards from belkin and adaptec are available for less than 50 usd. I am not saying that you must do this or how to spend your money. I just want to let you know what's going on. I don't doubt performance driven people will prefer a scsi solution for more cash. On May 01, 2004 at 04:07:34, William Penn wrote: >On April 30, 2004 at 14:09:47, margolies,marc wrote: > >>you have answered my question. >>the maxtor harddrive which you use has an average access tme of 9.6...this slow >>down the engine calculations while it waits for look-ups. >>therefore it is not a software problem. instead it is a hardware performance >>problem. >> > >Yes it could be so. I don't know. I just note that probably 90%+ of home >computers have drives of this speed, or slower. The older standard was 5400rpm, >which a lot of computers still use. >WP
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