Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 08:42:19 06/23/04
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On June 23, 2004 at 11:32:55, Brian Katz wrote: >I am presently using a DSL Connection........Will that be fast enough for >downloading 6 man Tablebases.? >I have created 4 partitions on my 80 gig Harddrive. > >C: Drive 20 gig for my OS and some basic applications like MS OFFICE and CD/DVD >Writing Program, Back up programs. > >D: Drive 12 GIG, for Chess Programs and other Miscellaneous Applications. > >E: Drive 12 Gig, for most saved Documents that I manually save when saving from >an Application like Word or Excel or Fritz 8 etc., or Copied and Pasted folders >and Files from Floppy or CD/DVD. > >F:Drive 30 Gig, for Tablebase files only. > >Also, my Tablebase folder is in a partioned logical drive. The drive is 30 Gig. >The Tablebase files I already have (All 3,4 and 5 men) is using well over 7 Gig. >Since I will only have 23 remaining Gig to use,do you have any suggestions, as >to what 6 man Tablebases are more important? >And lastly, since with only one partition, it is recommended to always leave >10-20 percent of empty harddrive space, for various reasons...(Operating System >and Swapping being some of them), with a partitioned Harddrive, should I leave >some empty space on the drive I am using for the Tablebases? > >Thanks >Brian Technically a 14.4 modem is fast enough to download them if you want to spend that kind of time. I use a cable modem, and I download roughly 10.6 gigs nightly (6 hour period), so DSL should be just fine. Peter
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