Hard Drive Cache

[trugmolly]

Hi.. I got a maxtor 80gig 7600 udma hdd.. It says that it has a 2gig cache. Just wondered exactly what that means... How to optimize it really is my question.
Cheers Trug

[4play]

It says that it has a 2gig cache :o

don't you mean 2 mb.

it is used as temp storage for files being moved around. generally the more you have the faster it is.

[balamm]

lol, no not 2 gig.
probably 2 meg.

Better ones are 8 meg. It really doesn't matter much, your system will manage it.

are you sure it's 7600 and not 7200?

[adamp2p]

Hard drive cache is: (http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=%22hard+drive+cache+is%22)