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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Will cached HD controller speed up OS/2 ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.214415.2576@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <hbc.722347928@munagin>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 21:44:15 GMT
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- In article <hbc.722347928@munagin> hbc@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (hon bu chong) writes:
- > I would be appreciated if someone could provide me an advice..
- > Actually I'm thinking of buying a cached hardDisk controller,
- > hoping that it could reduce disk accesses under OS2, hence this
- > will inprove the performance of the OS2.....
-
- It will certainly help OS/2 -- that much is easy to answer. I suppose
- your real question is how much it will help, and whether that much
- assistance is worth it. The answer, unfortunately, is, "It depends."
- If you have return privilege on the device you can try it out and
- judge yourself, under your specific setup (mix of hardware, software,
- and patterns of use).
-
- In general, the first area you should address when trying to boost
- OS/2 system performance is RAM. OS/2 benefits most from RAM. The
- second area to look at is probably hard disk -- a faster hard disk is
- better than a slower one. A cached hard disk adapter may help in this
- area. Then processor becomes important.
-
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