Re: XY and on-line sessions

[ajglass@xxxxxxxx (Andrew J. Glass)]

On Sat, 23 Mar 1996 01:59:35 -0500 (EST) you wrote:

>Hi, Andy:
>>
>>I'll also put in 32MB of RAM and a 4MB ATI video card that mates to the PCI
>>bus. A fast CD-ROM, a high-speed 1GB SCSI backup . . .
>
>Recommended: get a second hard-drive for backup. Prices are probably cheaper
>for a 1 gig harddrive than for a 1 gig tape drive. True, you can't remove
>the drive, but if you get a bigger drive for backup than you have for your
>main drive, it works well. My new system, bought in October, has an 850 Meg
>C: drive and a 1.2 Gig D: Backup is then done quickly via the xcopy command
>(in a batch file). And I have all the backed up stuff online for when I want
>it (which is about once a week).
>
>I know, I know, you're going to say any finite backup drive will get filled
>up. Well, diet! ;-)
>
>Regards,
>
>
>     Harry Binswanger
>      hb@xxxxxxxx
>
Harry:

That's a fine idea. I already have a user-installed SCSI 4GB in my present
Dell Optiplex 590 system, which boots most of the time . I paid $1,100
for it about eight months ago; since then prices have come down.

One thing I can never find in the guides about these drives is which ones
are quiet and which of them make a lot of noise when they do their work. The
present one, a Quantum XP34301, is quite clickity-clacky.



- Andy