Re: [H] Looking for Laptop Drive recommendation

[Hayes Elkins]

In general, a drive model getting an RPM speedup will benefit more than 
extra cache.

From: "Thane Sherrington (S)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: The Hardware List <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
To: The Hardware List <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
Subject: Re: [H] Looking for Laptop Drive recommendation
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:34:07 -0300

At 11:07 AM 26/10/2005, JRS wrote:

Tim, do you know which would help more, 16 meg cache, or 7200 rpm speed?

It depends on the cache algorithm.  On desktop drives, I've read that WD 
has the best algorithm, so their 8MB cache outdoes a lot of other 16MB 
caches.

T