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What's the difference between 8 MB and 16 MB Cache on a hard drive?
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I'm looking to replace a dead hard drive in an older notebook. The current (bad) hard drive is a Toshiba 60 GB 5400 RPM HDD with 16 MB cache. It's very difficult to find replacement ATA-100 notebook drives with 16 MB cache. Do I even need this extra cache? Is twice the cache noticeable?
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Tom's Hardware has a pretty good collection of harddrive benchmarks, pick your drives and see for yourself. p.s. i remember reading somewhere that you won't notice any difference between 8 and 16 Mb cache in normal HDD use. Here's the article i was …
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