HDT 1.5 vs Silverlining?

Dr. Strangelove

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Apr 11, 1995, 3:00:00 AM4/11/95

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I just found out yesterday that I had HDT 1.5 for several months and
didn't even know it (came with my previous 248M drive). I installed its
driver on my 1G drive and saw a little improvement (I think I got a rating
of 4.9 which didn't seem that great). Then I thought about it some today
and found I also had Silverlining 5.5.4/22 which came with my Apple
External drive. Now I couldn't find my HDT manual but seeing how I bought
the other drive several months ago, I suspect it's kinda old... didn't see
any mention of it being native. The Silverlining manual makes no mention
of it being native either and I got this drive a month or two ago.

I would guess my performance would be better if I initialized my
partitions with their own software but I'm wondering before I take that
plunge (it'll be a lot of work), which is better?

I've noticed a slight performance increase with HDT over some old program
I originally partitioned my gig drive with but I can't tell if
Silverlining is much better (my Apple external drive is on my Mac at
work). Silverlining allows me to set the interleave which dramatically
increased the performance on our drives on our Pentiums at work (but we
suspect they weren't configured very well). I'm tempted to go with
Silverlining because of this but I thought I'd solicit other people's
opinions.

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FPC Greg

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Apr 12, 1995, 3:00:00 AM4/12/95

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I believe the latest version of the HDT software is 1.6.3.

Gregory Wasson Contributing Editor, MacUser
fpc...@aol.com

Marc Bizer

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Apr 12, 1995, 3:00:00 AM4/12/95

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In article <3mgkus$e...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, fpc...@aol.com (FPC Greg) wrote:

> I believe the latest version of the HDT software is 1.6.3.

I think that 1.7 has already been released (to some) and will be shipping
in greater numbers soon.
--Marc Bizer

Frank Schima

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Apr 13, 1995, 3:00:00 AM4/13/95

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In article <3mgkus$e...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, fpc...@aol.com (FPC Greg) wrote:

> I believe the latest version of the HDT software is 1.6.3.

Version 1.7 has very recently been released.

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Frank Schima
Environmental Working Group
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Scott Glass

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Apr 13, 1995, 3:00:00 AM4/13/95

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In article <3mgkus$e...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, fpc...@aol.com (FPC Greg) wrote:

> I believe the latest version of the HDT software is 1.6.3.
>
>

> Gregory Wasson Contributing Editor, MacUser
> fpc...@aol.com

The latest version of Silverline is 5.6 rev 23. It reportedly has several
bugs on PPC's (which I don't have) and the on-screen LED is broken. They
promise 5.6.1 in short order to correct all problems.

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Scott Glass aka bigs...@lamar.colostate.edu

Michael Wise

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Apr 16, 1995, 3:00:00 AM4/16/95

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In article <3mgkus$e...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, fpc...@aol.com (FPC Greg) wrote:

> I believe the latest version of the HDT software is 1.6.3.

Actually, it is 1.7.

--Mike