Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!ncar!oddjob!mimsy!aplcen!jhunix!ins_adjb From: ins_adjb@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Daniel Jay Barrett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Hard disk summary for the net. Message-ID: <6607@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> Date: 28 Jun 88 22:14:48 GMT References: <8806240034.AA11956@cory.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: ins_adjb@jhunix.UUCP (Daniel Jay Barrett) Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Computing Ctr. Lines: 15 In article <8806240034.AA11956@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes: >>As a side note, I saw that Matt Dillon was tooking at a 230Meg drive. What >>size of drive are other people using? What speeds? > > Most people get drives in the 20-80MB range.... Matt, what do you do about hard disk backups with a disk that large? Are you planning to get a tape or 10meg floppy setup with your hard drive? Or will you deplete the world's supply of floppy disks? :-) More than likely, you'll just write "DCrash" to prevent any loss of data at all.... :-) -- Dan Barrett ins_adjb@jhunix.UUCP barrett@cs.jhu.edu