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Alecto wrote:
> 
> Darin Johnson wrote:
> >
> >
> > It's extremely scary to hear someone who builds computers talk that
> > way.  If an auto salesman said "don't worry about the details, you'll
> > probably buy a new car within 5 years anyway", I'd be running away.
> > All of the drives I've used, I've used for over 2 years (except the
> > ones that died).  And they've all been big enough.  Reliability and
> > speed is much more important to me than size (I have 2gigs, with no
> > plans on increasing it anytime soon).
> >
> You can hang onto an old machine for as long as you like ,all you have
> to do is stop buying any new software for it(your old machines too slow
> etc.) and be satisfied with living in the past.
> A 2 gig hard drive might sound roomey now but there will probably come a
> day when it won't be large enough to hold the computers opperating
> system (ie.100meg drives were once thought of as huge ,now there's not
> enough room to fully install Win95 on them)
> 
> > Of course, it is computer builders who do all the "memory is cheap,
> > disk is cheap" mantra, knowing that it is usually they who end up
> > being paid to do the upgrade.
> >
> 
> > And a computer builder that implies the two levels of quality are home
> > use and military spec is a builder to avoid.  That sort of thinking
> > has taken computers out of the high tech world, and turned them into
> > low tech low quality appliances.
> >
> 
> Most of our customers update their machines every 2 or 3 years (they
> like runing the latest games etc) ,we usualy give them the same trade in
> on their old system no matter how good it is(old computers all have the
> same value to us ,as we throw them out to the rubbish tip) ,so why waste
> their money with 'too much gun' for the job.
> 
> > (Hmm, if I had scsi, I'd much rather *add* a new smallish drive than
> > upgrade an existing one to a larger drive (meaning I have to migrate
> > everything over, what a nightmare).  With IDE, you're stuck with only
> > 2 drives (unless you want to slave them and screw up performance), so
> > the temptation is to make them larger.  But that's just me)
> >
> Salve them,screw up performance? ,not if you know what your doing ,IDE
> has a max of 8 drives.
> 
> Have you ever tried running win95 on a system with a lot of small hard
> drives? ,after a while there isn't enough room on the drive you
> installed windows on to hold all the components that other programs add
> to it during their installs ,gets to be a real pain in the neck.
> > >
> 
> Alecto.
  Dear Alacto: I would be extremely interested in learning howto run
more than 4 IDE drives on a system.  Pleaseanswer here and/or via
e-mail.  Thanks; R. Baer