November 16th, 2002, 04:21 PM
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| Quote: Originally posted by F/A-18 MechDood
I don't remember the link, but the WD 8mb cached ATA100 drives outperformed the Maxtor 2mb cached ATA133 drives.
The 8mb cache a gimmick? I'll take my 8mb cached drive anyday over anything else. | That's because they have a higher areal density, not particularly because of the larger cache.
For anyone with a reasonable operating system, the disk cache run by the OS is better and more flexible than the measly few megabytes offered by the drive itself. |
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