Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: 2 harddrives

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 09:11:55 10/26/05

Go up one level in this thread


On October 26, 2005 at 11:51:30, Peter Skinner wrote:

>On October 26, 2005 at 07:14:49, Joachim Rang wrote:
>
>>On October 25, 2005 at 23:31:29, Peter Skinner wrote:
>>
>>>On October 25, 2005 at 21:44:59, joseph soney wrote:
>>>
>>>>Is it better to put your chess software on the HD that contains windows or on a
>>>>different hard drive. Also, Would it be better to put windows on a 10k rpm drive
>>>>or a 7200 rpm drive. Which configuration would be best with these 2 hard drives?
>>>>Thanks!
>>>
>>>I have my Windows on a separate hard drive than all my Chess related stuff.
>>>
>>>You won't even notice the difference between the 10K and 7.2K drive in terms of
>>>speed. I used to have something similiar, and they benched pretty close to each
>>>other.
>>
>>But the TBs-Access should be pretty much faster on a 10k drive.
>>
>>Joachim
>
>You would think, but I didn't notice any huge difference until I used a 15K scsi
>drive.
>
>In fact I believe that Slator and I (I think it was Slator) that had a
>conversation about this on ICC over a 120 0 game. He found the same as I did.
>
>Peter

Thanks for that information. Can you somehow quantify the difference between a
15K SCSI and a 7.2K IDE for TB Access? Half the slowdown or what?

Joachim



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.