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Richard Laycock wrote:
> Tom,
>
> This must have occurred to you but I've got to ask... If you've got the
> SCSI card installed why not just add a 2nd HD and leave the boot disk
> alone? There's no advantage to a larger boot drive unless data is crowding
> out the page file or some such thing. Usually I put the NTWS system in a
> small partition (300 - 500mb) just so I can secure it from tampering. I
> install all data and apps to different drives or partitions with less
> stringent access privileges.
>
> In fact if I remember right having the page file on a 2nd physical disk,
> especially a SCSI, should speed things up a bit.
I've heard that too and it's probably true. However, since I've got
everything on one drive now if I can just increase that drive's size I
then wouldn't have to go moving apps to a second drive. Besides,
there's not any room in the case for another drive. It's got a floppy,
CD and tape installed internally already.
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Tom Roth Wake Forest University School of Medicine
tomroth@wfubmc.edu Dept of Biomedical Communications
http://www.wfubmc.edu/biomed/ Medical Center Blvd
Tel 336.716.4493 Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1011
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