Okay guys, you're busted! I figured you were pulling my leg so I
checked around. The biggest buffers on any normal consumer drive is
16 mb. That's "m" as in mega not "g" as in giga. It just didn't
make sense to have giga-bytes of buffer for kilo-byte files. And the
prices didn't seem to reflect that much buffer either.
At 05:09:17 -0800 on 11/14/05, Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...with the 8 GB and larger buffers on most recent drives....
On 14 Nov 2005 at 19:20:25 -0500 I asked:
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.
On 15 Nov 2005 at 08:41:45 -0700 Bruce Johnson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied:
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.
Wouldn't the processor still have to search the buffer? 8 gigs?
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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