On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:08:48PM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > Some hard disks these days come with a 8MB on-disk buffer, instead of > the usual 2MB. Is anyone able to say in a sentence or two how much > difference this actually makes?
http://www.storagereview.com/php/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=BufferSizes One thing worth noting, however: if you care about your filesystem integrity, you'll have write-caching disabled, and subsequently won't receive any benefit during writes from a (larger) on-board cache. Cheers, -mjg -- Matthew Gregan |/ /| [EMAIL PROTECTED]
