On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:41:20PM -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote:
I'm getting ready to take Gentoo_2 off line and replace mobo and
processor I was looking at hdd's this morning and saw Western Digital
80 and 120 gig udma 133 drives at both the same pricethe difference is
that the 80 gig has 8
The 8mb cache really comes into play with sustained transfer rates of large
files.
The 2mb cache is similar to a drive I'm using, it's only 60gb though, and I
have no complaints.
It all comes down to what the drive is going to be used for. If the drive
will primarily be used with lots of small
Hi there,
Am Donnerstag, 6. März 2003 20:48 schrieb Alan:
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:41:20PM -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote:
I'm getting ready to take Gentoo_2 off line and replace mobo and
processor I was looking at hdd's this morning and saw Western Digital
80 and 120 gig udma 133 drives at
Knowing only what you gave me here - I'd go for the bigger
drive and get more storage space for the money.
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:41:20 -0500
Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm getting ready to take Gentoo_2 off line and replace
mobo and
processor I was looking at hdd's this morning
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 2hdparm /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
On Thursday 06 March 2003 14:46, Christian Herzyk wrote:
Hi there,
Am Donnerstag, 6. März 2003 20:48 schrieb Alan:
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:41:20PM -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote:
I'm getting ready to take Gentoo_2 off line and replace mobo and
processor I was looking at hdd's this
