hard drive ?

macetom · 12-April-05, 09:46 PM

Hi...I just bought a 160 gigabyte WD hard drive for 86 bucks at newegg.com. this hard drive only has 2MB of cache.....will this greatly decrease the speed of the hard drive.....and will this cause load times to be extremely slow?

keep in mind. this is the only hard drive in the system

thanks

system stats are as follows

chaintech PCI express board(nforce 4 board i cant remember the make and model)

Athlon 64 3200+ winchestor

512 MB of ddr400 mushkin blue line

RBIEZE · 12-April-05, 09:55 PM

compared to what? a raptor will smoke it, but a exact same drive w 8 MB cache versus 2MB you probably wont notice on your system unless your doing drive intensive operations

macetom · 13-April-05, 08:35 PM

any other input.......so it will not slow it down at all....the computer is predominately used for gaming

macetom · 14-April-05, 08:39 AM

sry for the double post..... but what are consider " drive intensive operations?

nev_payne · 14-April-05, 09:06 AM

Yeh to edit your 2nd post click on the EDIT button and put the new info there instead.

I tend to steer clear of the 2MB cache hard drives even for system building for customers. I prefer to be safe in the knowledge that theres a nice chunk of resources there for any intensive programs such as games, decoding, encoding, compression, etc...

For an overall stability/performer go for the Barracudas from Seagate with 8mb Cache.

macetom · 17-April-05, 08:49 PM

Will the 2 MB of cache slow down the speed of things such as, load times, program installation, and gaming. compared to the 8 mb of cache

anime-fan-man · 17-April-05, 11:00 PM

Yes it will, and at that it really depends on the program and your system ram and cpu/Gpu etc.

4rm4g3dd0n · 17-April-05, 11:53 PM

this is true, it will, but prob not enough to make a huge difference... i went from a 2mb hdd up to a raptor so i cant say i really have any way to judge the 2 vs 8mb at the same rpm, i wouldnt think its that huge a diff

12-April-05, 09:46 PM		#1 (permalink)
macetom Apex Advanced Techie	hard drive ? Hi...I just bought a 160 gigabyte WD hard drive for 86 bucks at newegg.com. this hard drive only has 2MB of cache.....will this greatly decrease the speed of the hard drive.....and will this cause load times to be extremely slow? keep in mind. this is the only hard drive in the system thanks system stats are as follows chaintech PCI express board(nforce 4 board i cant remember the make and model) Athlon 64 3200+ winchestor 512 MB of ddr400 mushkin blue line Last edited by macetom; 12-April-05 at 09:55 PM..

12-April-05, 09:55 PM		#2 (permalink)
RBIEZE Apex Tech Demi-God	maybe compared to what? a raptor will smoke it, but a exact same drive w 8 MB cache versus 2MB you probably wont notice on your system unless your doing drive intensive operations

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13-April-05, 08:35 PM		#3 (permalink)
macetom Apex Advanced Techie	any other input.......so it will not slow it down at all....the computer is predominately used for gaming

14-April-05, 08:39 AM		#4 (permalink)
macetom Apex Advanced Techie	sry for the double post..... but what are consider " drive intensive operations?

14-April-05, 09:06 AM		#5 (permalink)
nev_payne Apex Tech God	Yeh to edit your 2nd post click on the EDIT button and put the new info there instead. I tend to steer clear of the 2MB cache hard drives even for system building for customers. I prefer to be safe in the knowledge that theres a nice chunk of resources there for any intensive programs such as games, decoding, encoding, compression, etc... For an overall stability/performer go for the Barracudas from Seagate with 8mb Cache.

17-April-05, 08:49 PM		#6 (permalink)
macetom Apex Advanced Techie	Will the 2 MB of cache slow down the speed of things such as, load times, program installation, and gaming. compared to the 8 mb of cache

17-April-05, 11:00 PM		#7 (permalink)
anime-fan-man Apex Elite Tech	Yes it will, and at that it really depends on the program and your system ram and cpu/Gpu etc.

17-April-05, 11:53 PM		#8 (permalink)
4rm4g3dd0n Apex Elite Tech	this is true, it will, but prob not enough to make a huge difference... i went from a 2mb hdd up to a raptor so i cant say i really have any way to judge the 2 vs 8mb at the same rpm, i wouldnt think its that huge a diff