On Nov 14, 2005, at 5:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 05:09:17 -0800 on 11/14/05, Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
...with the 8 GB and larger buffers on most recent drives....
Why have they gone to such huge buffers. I'd think the time to
load and search the buffer would slow down the system when files of
10's or 100's of kb are concerned.
Because memory is to disk i/o as a Ferarri is to a goat cart. Besides
this isn't handled by the OS, it's handled by the drive controller.
Granted large buffers are more useful in some situations than others,
but you're not losing out if you have it.
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