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For those of you that are WD fans, newegg has the 80GB drive with 8MB cache for $109 including shipping, a "special of the week." Still shown as in stock.
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Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP. -
So? My RAID card has a 256 meg onboard cache
A huge HDD cache only really matters on OS drives where the same small chunks of data may be repeatedly moved around.
For streaming data a cache that size is almost useless as it saturates after just a couple of seconds.
The OS disk cache or a RAID's soft or hardware cache matters more. They can be huge and thereby better able to buffer system hiccups.
Example: multimedia; esp. video capture/playback
Dr. MordridLast edited by Dr Mordrid; 2 August 2002, 19:04.Dr. Mordrid
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Ease up Doc. Just pointing out a decent deal, that's all. No need for you to try to whip it out. Nobody cares.Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.Comment
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Can I whip it out?Originally posted by Wombat
Ease up Doc. Just pointing out a decent deal, that's all. No need for you to try to whip it out. Nobody cares.
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Haven't Toshiba got a laptop drive with a 16MB cache out now?MURC COC Minister of Wierd Confusion (MWC)Comment
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yeah they do but the ibm 40 GNX hdd with 8Mb cache seems to benchmark slightly ahead. read into that whatever you want to.Originally posted by William
Haven't Toshiba got a laptop drive with a 16MB cache out now?
btw both models are 5400rpm hddsComment
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With the price of ram like it is, why don't they stick like 512 megs of RAM on a HD?
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Space?Comment
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its called SO-DIMM's.
Yeeeaaaaaaah baby."And yet, after spending 20+ years trying to evolve the user interface into something better, what's the most powerful improvement Apple was able to make? They finally put a god damned shell back in." -jwz
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Not "whipping it out", just pointing out that large HDD caches don't mean as much if the system is using a modern OS and/or RAID arrays for storage...as on a multimedia system.Originally posted by Wombat
Ease up Doc. Just pointing out a decent deal, that's all. No need for you to try to whip it out. Nobody cares.
For OS drives they still do matter though.
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I wouldn't touch WD with a 10' poleComment
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I've got one of the 80 GB 8 MB cache drives, their very nice. Waiting for the 200 GB version
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not even my patented Non-conductive 10' pole<SUP><FONT SIZE="-2">TM</FONT></SUP>? It's especially designed for touching dodgy things... (I patented it after a thread about external power sources for video cards)Originally posted by Dogbert
I wouldn't touch WD with a 10' poleLook, I know you think the world of me, that's understandable, you're only human, but it's not nice to call somebody "Vain"!Comment
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