---Reply to mail from Iain Lang about [PCBUILD] Help, new system advice

> Are there figures mentioned on the box anywhere (or should there be!) which
> will indicate to the poor buyer (like wot I is) things like the access
> time/transfer rate (like for DC-ROM drives) to help him/her decide?  As I
> can't recall anyone mentioning this to me before (indeed the whole topic is
> one I hadn't considered.... Duh) do manufacturers in general list these
> performance figures on web sites, whatever.  Or are there break-points in
> the technology march which we should seek to buy later than - akin to the
> various flavours of DOS back in the good ol' days?  (Muddled, but I hope
> you'll get the gist!)
>
> Yooors,
>
> Iain.


Hello Iain,

Nope, probably not. The most you'll get on the outside of the
box(look on the bottom, too), will be serial, and product number.
(Thats all I've ever found). However, you can look up the hard drive
on the manufacturer's web site and find out these arcane numbers.

HTH,

-ppw3

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