16 MB Cache Question.

Stavros · Aug 28, 2005

Does the increased cache really affect load times? Is the price increase worth the extra Cache?

shard · Aug 28, 2005

cache, just makes the programs more snappy, aka que time, and seek times increase, but actual mbps rates dont realy increase much at all

MassiveOverkill · Aug 28, 2005

Actually, the Maxtor Diamond Max 10 200 and 250 giggers are the cheapest SATA drives at Newegg.

The extra cache does make a difference. Shot of my Maxline III vs my Seagate 7200.8

ocminimus · Aug 30, 2005

I've had scary experiences with Maxtor drives...are they better now quality control wise?

Scott9027 · Aug 30, 2005

Yes, I believe the more recent Maxtors have been much better as far as quality control is concerned.

nicknomo · Aug 30, 2005

Stavros said:
Does the increased cache really affect load times? Is the price increase worth the extra Cache?

The extra cache has little effect on real world performance. Platter density is pretty much the only thing that dramatically effects speed.

The reason is that the cache is simply too small to have a dramatic effect. 16 MB isn't much space, and its not much of a buffer. It may be twice the amount of 8MB, but even 8MB was a very minor improvement over 2 MB.

As far as QC, people have trouble with all sorts of drives.. failure among hard drives is common. You won't really know which models have problems and which ones won't until its too late. It's always good measure to buy a hard drive cooler if your data matters. I've epxerienced far fewer failures with HD coolers...

shard · Aug 30, 2005

nicknomo said:
The extra cache has little effect on real world performance. Platter density is pretty much the only thing that dramatically effects speed.

The reason is that the cache is simply too small to have a dramatic effect. 16 MB isn't much space, and its not much of a buffer. It may be twice the amount of 8MB, but even 8MB was a very minor improvement over 2 MB.

As far as QC, people have trouble with all sorts of drives.. failure among hard drives is common. You won't really know which models have problems and which ones won't until its too late. It's always good measure to buy a hard drive cooler if your data matters. I've epxerienced far fewer failures with HD coolers...

well, not just platter density, also platter speed

warlock110 · Aug 30, 2005

all my drives are maxtor, the oldest one is more than 3 years, nothing happen yet, i do abuse my drive alot though

Prodromo · Aug 30, 2005

The 16 MB of cache makes a very noticable difference indeed.

nicknomo · Aug 30, 2005

shard said:
well, not just platter density, also platter speed

Of course, but considering the raptor is the only 10k IDE drive, and it is a bit slower than the newest SATA drives... It's a moot point...

nicknomo · Aug 30, 2005

Prodromo said:
The 16 MB of cache makes a very noticable difference indeed.

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2454&p=7

Look at the transfer rates, and the real world tests...

MassiveOverkill · Aug 30, 2005

Something tells me they got their hands on a bad drive:

http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200410/200410087B300S0-2_1.html

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