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From: kph@blackhole.bae.bellcore.com (Keith P. Hawkins)
Subject:  Hard Disks and Optical Disks
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.181149.17058@bellcore.bellcore.com>
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Organization: Bell Communications Research
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 91 18:11:49 GMT



I have an 040 Cube running 2.0 with just the swapdisk and the optical drive.  

I am now running out of free space on my optical.  I am thinking about getting a harddisk for
the machine.  I am tempted to buy the 330 Mb advertised in BusinessLands last fire sale, but 330MB doesn't sound like a lot of space if ~200 MB is needed just
to hold the system software.


I suppose that I could buy a single additional optical disk to use as a backup
to the one I currently have and keep just data on the harddisk.  Is this feasible?  Or does one want to run the system off of the disk as well for performance
reasons and the 330Mb just too small?

Basically what I'm asking is what would all you knowledgeable people out there
do if you were in my shoes?  (Size 10 1/2  :-)


Please respond with any suggestions you may have.


Thanks,
Keith




