wondering about network drive acces

[unwise]

Hi all, I was wondering

Once I have read (somewhere in this forum) that with ide drives take quite some time (compared to scsi) from the processor when loading data into memory.

Would it therefore be faster if your system gets this info from an other computer on a small network, so the other computer gathers the info, and the computer your working on still has processortime to do other things?

If it works, would it be possible / usefull to put your swap-file on the other computer?

I hope somebody can tell me if I should stop drinking when writing or that this is a serious posibility

[DVNT1]

No, typically the actual access across the network is much slower than a local drive (even IDE).

The common instances in which a neworked computer would help speed up data retrieval is with databases running on SQL server, Oracle, etc... Then the servers would have a lot of fast hardware to do the processing for you.

[Sixpac]

There is no way to put your swapfiles on another computer. If there was, the downfall would be if the other computer went to fall you wouldn't have a swapfile at all.

Sixpac>>>

[unwise]

Tanks,
Then I guess if I want my processor to spend less time at reading data from disk, I will have to invest at scsi parts or at a faster ide disk with its own memory.

I will try setting up a network anyway (at least, if I can get that p166 back running), just for fun.