> Which would you buy? I'd go for the 120. There are other factors than cache that can have a bigger impact on speed, and from what I've seen the speed difference between a 2MB and 8MB cache is fairly small to begin with.
My WD 60GB drive with 2MB cache: /home/daniel 2>hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq = 1 (on) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 64 (on) geometry = 7297/255/63, sectors = 117231408, start = 0 /home/daniel 3>hdparm -Tt /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.43 seconds =297.67 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.38 seconds = 46.38 MB/sec -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
