[PLUG] IDE HDD Buffer Size

Alan alan at clueserver.org
Mon May 17 20:46:01 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 20:18, Paul Mullen wrote:
> How significant of an impact does the cache size have on an IDE hard
> drive? I see two commonly available configurations: 2 MB cache and 8 MB
> cache. There really isn't much of a price difference to justify going
> with the smaller cache drive, but I'm still curious. My best guess is
> that for a system whose data retrieval patterns are relatively
> scattered, then the cache might help, but that it would not do much for
> a backup or MP3 server.

The biggest reason you want the 8mb cache:

2mb cache = 1 year warranty
8mb cache = 3 year warranty

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