On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 14:11:52 +0100
Peter Perlsø <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> For what it's worth, reading the old debate about the advantages of a
> 8 MB buffer, Bare Feats conducted some tests a year back, and this is
> what they came up with:
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> http://www.barefeats.com/hard22.html

Interesting. Would have been even more so if he'd compared RAID both
ways, as there is an urban legend (which may or may not be true) that
the 8 meg cache is a disadvantage in RAID use.

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> "If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you
> goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain
> when they take your money and give it to someone else, including
> themselves."
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> -- Thomas Sowell (1992)
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--John
Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)

For what it's worth, reading the old debate about the advantages of a 8
MB buffer, Bare Feats conducted some tests a year back, and this is what
they came up with:


http://www.barefeats.com/hard22.html



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- Peter Perls¿ - web: http://u238.dk

"If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies
at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they
take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves."

-- Thomas Sowell (1992)

"Peter Perlsø" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:3fc0b219$0$27391$(E-Mail Removed)...
> For what it's worth, reading the old debate about the advantages of a 8
> MB buffer, Bare Feats conducted some tests a year back, and this is what
> they came up with:
>
>
> http://www.barefeats.com/hard22.html

"Then I got an email from a loyal reader pointing out that I had overlooked Western Digital's newest 120GB 7200rpm ATA-100 Special
Edition drive, the Caviar WD1200JB (JB=Jumbo Buffer = 8MB). So here it is... fasten your seat belts and extinguish all smoking
materials.... "

Problem is that WDC aren't very strict with what capacity platters
they equip their models with. E.G., the WD800JB wasn't the same drive
as the WD800BB when it first came out, it was a newer generation drive.
They later brought out the WD800BB in SE (second edition) form
which was the WD800JB with only 2MB cache.
There also have been speculations on the rather strange capacities
offered by WD that didn't make sense from the standpoint that drive
capacities should be multiples of (platter)sides.


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> --
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> - Peter Perls¿ - web: http://u238.dk
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> "If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies
> at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they
> take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves."
>
> -- Thomas Sowell (1992)
>