Hard drive cashe

[bobalong]

How much difference does 16mb & 8mb worth of cashe on HD's actually make over 2mb's???


Is it realy worth the $10 price difference??
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[farmercal]

First of all the correct spelling of the word is cache. Secondly, what you are talking about is not cache but buffer size. To answer your question, all I can tell you is when I had a hard drive with a 2 MB buffer it took a minute or two to load Windows XP Pro. When I upgraded to a hard drive with 8 MB buffer, Win XP Pro loads in under 30 seconds. I haven't had the opportunity of try a hard drive with 16 MB buffer size yet so I can't offer any advice on that configuration. Hope this helps.

 

[UsandThem]

Read here

And yes, 8 mb cache hard drives do better and is worth the $10.00 difference.

 

[Excelsior]

No, he was correct, it is cache.

Yes, the 8MB drives are worth the $10 over the 2MB. ones.

 

[bacillus]

The size of the hard drive' s cache isn't everything as demonstrated in the past between an IBM drive that had 8MB and a Toshiba model which had 16MB of cache.