Right... And anyone runnnig bandwidth critical apps knows that you dont use IDE drives for your data. I also pointed out how to determine how it *should* perform. All HD specs equal, performace problems are usually NOT the hard drive but the CPU, network (inefficient drivers), crappily designed apps (which most bandwidth-intensive apps are), and most likely the OS (if its windows)---thats practice. At 12:37 PM 2/19/01 -0600, you wrote: >On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Jason DeStefano wrote: > >> Hard drive speed at mostly a matter of pluging the specs into >> some equations to find out how it should perform. > >I'm not disagreeing at all with what you said, however, having a little >experience in bandwidth critical apps, I can tell you that > >"The difference between theory and practice is that in theory there is >none."<g> > >Phil M > >-- >"To misattribute a quote is unforgivable." --Anonymous > >_______________________________________________ >tclug-list mailing list >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >