Hello raymond,

Thursday, August 12, 1999, 8:00:39 PM, you wrote:

rk> I concur with Samuel- almost.

rk> 128 expandable to 256 (or 512, if you can find it) and the BIGGEST hard
rk> drive you can get (I know they have 18 Gig and probably larger. I have heard
rk> rumors of a forty. You'll need it in two or three years.).

The Biggest drive is also the most expensive, and you'll have to
upgrade it eventually anyway. I agree that you should take one 128 Mb
stick and leave 2-3 more open memory slots.

But for the hard drive, you should take the model that offers best
price/space/performance; that is, 8.6 or 10 GB IDE drive at 5400 or
7200 rpm. You should upgrade when you feel the need for more space,
and only then. It is the most cost-effective solution, also consider
that hard drive tech. will improve, and next year the drives will be
bigger, faster and more reliable for the same $.

Example : 25-30G drive now, SCSI-2, $1000 at least
or: 8.6G 5400 RPM drive now ($200), 18G 10kRPM drive next year
($200 according to Moore's law) - total of 26G, new drive probably
better and faster than the original scsi-2.

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