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Subject:
100 MB disks in a Zip 250 drive
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Will Stephenson <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 11 May 1999 07:07:20 -0400
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Hello!

I have a client who recently purchased a P2-400 Dell (running NT 4 w/SP 4
workstation) with 128 ECC RAM, an 8G harddrive,  and an internal (IDE) Zip
250 MB drive for use as a file server for a Foxpro application.

When writing to a 100MB Zip disk, 100 MB of data takes around 9 minutes.
When writing to a 250 MB disk, the same amount of data takes about 90
seconds. Has anyone one on the list seen or heard of a similar situation ?
Or would anyone have an idea why ?

Thank you for your time!

Will Stephenson   ><>
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