Hard Drive Cache

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Sun, 03/20/2011 - 00:55
Lamethrower
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How important is the cache of a HDD and how exactly does it affect it's performance?

I just purchased 2 WD Caviar Black 1TB to run in RAID 0 and noticed they have 64MB cache but never really understood how the size affected it's performance.

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Sun, 03/20/2011 - 14:20
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#107 - Question/Answer: CPU & Hard Drive Cache

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Mon, 03/21/2011 - 18:13
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Imagine that, me answering questions when I not even around ;) Thx Razear

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