by wm_walsh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Feb 1, 2008 at 12:43 PM
Hi!
> I'm going to order my new Hard Drives tomorrow and want
> a few opinions.
Anything other than a Maxtor drive is a good starting point.
> Do you think the 32mb Cache is worth the extra $90.
Most likely not. Nearly all modern operating systems have their own
caching strategies that involve RAM, of which there is usually much
more than 32MB available. Furthermore, drive mechanisms are faster
than ever before.
If you use write caching (and most Windows 2000 or newer systems have
this enabled by default) and the drive can't write the contents of its
cache back to the disk, a 32MB cache could result in a bigger "hole"
being left in the file system and your data than a 16MB cache.
> I would load Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit instead of 32bit.
Make sure you can find all the 64-bit drivers you need for the
hardware you have!
William
