From: Man-wai Chang on

Do they worth the money?

I noticed that 500G hard disks of Seagate & Hitachi got 16M cache only...

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From: Arno on
Man-wai Chang <toylet.toylet(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> Do they worth the money?

Depends on what you want.

> I noticed that 500G hard disks of Seagate & Hitachi got 16M cache only...

HDD-integrated cache/buffer is pretty unimportant today, unless you
are running DOS. In fact, less is better, as it decreases the risk
of switching off power before the HDD has flushed its buffer to
surface. It also decreases the data corruption risk on power loss.

Arno

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From: Rod Speed on
Man-wai Chang wrote:

> Do they worth the money?

I avoid WDs currently, until they sort out the problem of blackening of the pcbs.

> I noticed that 500G hard disks of Seagate & Hitachi got 16M cache only...

You cant generally pick the difference in a proper double blind trial.


From: Man-wai Chang on
> HDD-integrated cache/buffer is pretty unimportant today, unless you
> are running DOS. In fact, less is better, as it decreases the risk
> of switching off power before the HDD has flushed its buffer to
> surface. It also decreases the data corruption risk on power loss.

I think write-caching could be disabled. Not 100% sure about WD though.

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From: Man-wai Chang on
> Its a Track buffer so will depend on how the data is spread over the
> hard disk, the big bug with hard drives is the seek time..

So 32M & 64M only increased the bet ...

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