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Latest SCSI Drive Reviewed
Sivar writes "StorageReview got their hands
on a Maxtor Atlas 10K V, the first SCSI hard drive in more than two years to double
capacity. Considering how quickly storage was improving just a few years ago, and other news like Intel's cancellation of the 4GHz Pentium IV despite AMD's lead you have to wonder if the traditional predictions of the end of Moore's Observation are actually beginning to come true."
The more serious response...
It seems odd that no one has come out with a standard cache expansion kit.
What about a cache expansion kit that is a small daughterboard that can take multiple RAM type designs (SIMM / DIMM / SO-DIMM etc), and which then plugs into the drive's cache socket. This would mean that all the old RAM that you had to remove to upgrade your machine could be put to good use. Even though it would not be as fast as the RAM in main use, it would still be around 1000 times faster than the HD itself. OK, so trying to integrate 30-pin SIMMs would probably be a bit silly (especially with a limit of something like 8Mb), but anything from about 168-pin would do.
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