Subj : Re: 386 OS/2 Woes...
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Vorlon
Date : Tue May 09 2023 15:05:29

Hi Poindexter,

 On Saturday May 06 2023, Poindexter Fortran said to Vorlon:

 PF> Back in the day, we had good luck upgrading single-core laptops with
 PF> SSHD drives - a standard spinning SATA drive with 4-8gb of NAND cache
 PF> on the side. The system would boot up normally, then as you loaded DLLs
 PF> and programs, they'd load from the cache. Boot up time wasn't faster,
 PF> but once it got up and running it made a nice speed difference loading,
 PF> for example, Office apps and a browser.

I have two of them here that are no longer getting used and sitting on the
shelf. They are 2.5" 1TB unit's with 64gb of cache... They got used in a
server sitting in a datacentre as backup drives for the main SSD drives.

The server is also sitting here unused (a Dell R210 1ru, half length
server). The only reason it got pulled was due to it's 16Gb max ram limit.
Otherwise the thing ran as fast as the flash.



\/orlon
aka
Stephen

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