I guess the question I have is pretty simple but if someone could go into detail about it I would greatly appreciate it.
When it comes to hard drives, other than the obvious cache size what is the difference between a HD with 16MB cache and one with 32MB cache, and will I be able to notice the difference during gaming or high load situations?
I am building a new machine so any info would be awesome.
as you probably know the bigger the cache the more data the HD can have ready for processing , there was a general feeling after tests i saw last year that anything over 8MB made very little differance in terms of hard drive performance
and as for gaming you certainly wont see any differance in performance unless you have a low end rig and very little memory and i dont suppose your gonna be building yourself one of those
that said my knowlage only really stretches to gaming as for other apps , video editing etc im thinking a larger cache may be an advantage , if its not too much more go for the 32 , if your building a glorified X Box get either
The cost is identical on Newegg...but I pulled a stupid. When I was picking the combo deal with Vista Ultimate x64...I guess I chose Caviar Blue (16MB) instead of Caviar Black (32MB) And to send it back and get the other one would end up costing me more because I got another special limited time offer when I ordered.
So instead of trying to send it back I have 3 choices. Just use the one I got, try to sell it on e-bay and then just buy the Caviar Black, or buy a Caviar Black and use that as main and the Blue as secondary. Dunno quite what I wanna do yet.
