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From: sanders-malcolm@CS.YALE.EDU (Malcolm Sanders)
Subject: Re: Hard Disks and Optical Disks
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In article <1991Jun20.181149.17058@bellcore.bellcore.com> kph@blackhole.bae.bellcore.com (Keith P. Hawkins) writes:



   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?

   [....]  

   Please respond with any suggestions you may have.


   Thanks,
   Keith


My understanding is that the 330 Mb disk drive is the largest that
can coexist with the optical disk inside the cube.  If you want a 
larger hard disk, you will have to hang it (or the optical disk 
drive) off the SCSI port.

I would tend to have the stuff that is used most often on the hard
disk, since it has a faster seek time than the optical disk, but 
I'm really a novice at this stuff, so a grain of salt is advised.

Malcolm Sanders
Applied Physics
Yale University
