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From: "Don Sherrill" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] OT- OS Choice & RAID-1
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 19:13:29 -0700
References: <3BB9CFD9.DE4C15A0@reigelridge.com>


I have been running three early beta versions of Windows XP for about 6
months, and will be installing the final version this Friday.. I find that
TMG runs much better with XP than with Win 98, e.g., with Win 98 I always
had a problem with crashes due to the number of fonts - and if I had Outlook
Express open when opening TMG. This has not been a problem with XP. I have
also had many fewer system freeze problems in other applications when using
XP.

True - there will be bugs with XP, but from my limited experience, WIN 98
has many more - and it's been around for a couple of years.

Don Sherrill

----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry Reigel" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 7:31 AM
Subject: [TMG] OT- OS Choice & RAID-1


Off Topic - Please delete if you are not interested in technical stuff about
computer innards.

Well, I guess it's off topic, but it's really running TMG with a fairly
large dataset that's my "excuse" for buying a new computer. I know there are
some people with experience on these issues on the list, but perhaps it
would be best if you reply to do so off list.

I'm talking to a local shop about building a new system - a 1.7G P-IV w/ 512
M RAM. My supplier is strongly urging me not to buy XP - primarily because
it's new and bound to have problems. He's suggesting installing my current
copy of Win98 SE instead. I'm drawn by his argument, given MS's track
record, but would on the other hand like to get improved stability. Anyone
have any thoughts?

Also, he's suggesting a pair of 40G HDs running in a RAID-1 mirrored
configuration. This would replace my current practice of using a second
smaller drive and a Bat file with Xcopy to manually make backups of data
files only, as an intermediate backup between copies I make to CD-R. Anybody
have any knowledge or experience with RAID-1 on a workstation? How much
trouble is it? Do disk utilities like Norton and PartitionMagic work with
them? Any idea of what percentage of HD failures occur on the drives
themselves as opposed to the elements that would be shared in a RAID system?
It seems like my current manual system provides a bit more independence, and
hence reliability, though still being subject to common risks like power
surges, and also the risk of the user failing to use it often enough.

Any thoughts welcome.

Terry Reigel



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