On Nov 28, 2005, at 4:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay guys, you're busted! I figured you were pulling my leg so I checked around. The biggest buffers on any normal consumer drive is 16 mb. That's "m" as in mega not "g" as in giga. It just didn't make sense to have giga-bytes of buffer for kilo-byte files. And the prices didn't seem to reflect that much buffer either.
Honestly, I hadn't even noticed the typo; my brain corrected it without thinking. Aaron almost certainly meant 8MB buffers. The statement about memory being much faster than HDD still holds, and were we able to create 8GB memory buffers, trust me, it would be faster.
As I said, the OS doesn't search those buffers anyway, it's handled by the dedicated hardware on the drives themselves, and is much faster than looking for something on disk.
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