Where's 32mb catch on the segate .11 come in handy?

[Mongoo13]

Just noticed the new Seagate barracuda has 32mb catch. Do you think there would be a noticeable performance boost with that? Specifically for playing large gb sample libraries which store the beginnings of thousands of sounds in ram and then play the remainder from the hardrive?

 

[johanh13]

Hello Mongoo13,

I am supposed to by getting the last part (RAM) for my new computer today. I am going to be running two 500GB 7200.11 disks in RAID0. I will test the performance relative to my other system, which is running the new, thin 250GB 7200.10 (st3250410as)....

 

[johanh13]

My system is up and running and really the RAID0 with the 7200.11 does not make a dramatic difference. For example, loading Crysis takes about 40 seconds on my 7200.10 (no RAID), versus this with RAID0 loads in about 33 seconds...

Originally posted by: Mongoo13
Just noticed the new Seagate barracuda has 32mb catch. Do you think there would be a noticeable performance boost with that? Specifically for playing large gb sample libraries which store the beginnings of thousands of sounds in ram and then play the remainder from the hardrive?