At 2003-05-14T17:17:07Z, Svein Ove Aas <svein.ove@aas.no> writes: > (On a sidenote, is there any need for HDs with lots of cache on a proper > OS, with DMA enabled, which caches stuff in the much more plentiful - not > to mention faster - main RAM anyway?) Yes. Especially when the cache is of the read-ahead sort where the drive fills a request by reading the given block plus the next several, and then committing the extra to cache for quick later retrieval regardless of where the head happens to have moved in the meantime. -- Kirk Strauser
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