Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Jim Bank" Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY") Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 07:18:47 +1100 Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <79s9m8$lqh$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <1f5de20f-5ed5-4ebc-ba13-bf034ccd8abb@googlegroups.com> <2b76adee-9e0a-457c-9762-950d2b2e226a@googlegroups.com> <886bc85b-9bf1-489a-a388-397ef7f37997@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="Windows-1252"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net D2XjRy9Bmi1OASKZG+PArQOc2rD5KysE9+R6dJePd7NGDLx64= Cancel-Lock: sha1:03J9cCai4c0OiolftdRL25SwTdg= In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:161110 "Scott Lurndal" wrote in message news:hVcGy.33322$GB1.14047@fx28.iad... > "J. Clarke" writes: >>In article <886bc85b-9bf1-489a-a388-397ef7f37997@googlegroups.com>, >>hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com says... >>> >>> On Monday, March 14, 2016 at 3:53:33 PM UTC-4, Quadibloc wrote: >>> > For example, the usual trend of even a desktop PC having only one hard >>> > disk >>> > drive. So the heads have to move back and forth to read from one file >>> > and write >>> > to another. Two hard disk drives, though, are easy enough to have if >>> > you want >>> > them. Four hard disk drives? Not unless its a server! >>> > >>> > I don't ask much, but I do think that a little too much is lost. For >>> > that >>> > matter, I'd wish that ECC memory was _standard_ instead of sold at >>> > inflated >>> > prices (i.e. anything more than 12.5% more expensive). >>> >>> My home PC is proving inadequate to the modern web; the disk drive is >>> flogging itself to death even though there is plenty of disk space. >>> Having multiple independent drives would help a lot. But basically, >>> I'm being forced to buy a new PC. >> >>That's usually a sign of insufficient RAM. > > Or an infection. Very unlikely indeed to be an infection that takes so long to keep scanning the drive for data worth stealing.