Will you notice a big diff between a 8 meg and less buffer on HD's?

[Informant X]

Will you notice a big difference between a 8 meg buffer, and lets say a 2 meg one on a IDE hd?

 

[Derango]

it depends mostly on what you're doing. I've got the 2MB version of the WD1000B, and it's plenty fast for me.

 

[miken]

Just for copying large amounts of files.

In other words, it matters only in benchmarks and in your head. The difference may be there, but it won't be noticable.

 

[Dan]

Let us not forget the all important notion of "bragging rights."

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

for normal use, access time makes a bigger difference.