Question:Does hard drive buffer size matter? ?? ??(6 answers) ?? ???Closed 4 years ago. ?
I’m looking to replace a dead hard drive in an older notebook. ?The current (bad) hard drive is a Toshiba 60 GB 5400 RPM HDD with 16 MB cache. ?It’s very difficult to find replacement ATA-100 notebook drives with 16 MB cache. ?Do I even need this extra cache? ?Is twice the cache noticeable?
Answer: Tom’s Hardware has a pretty good collection of harddrive benchmarks, pick your drives and see for yourself.
p.s. i remember reading somewhere that you won’t notice any difference between 8 and 16 Mb cache in normal HDD use.
Here’s the article i was talking about. ?
p.p.s: i found the benchmark that fits your case – draw your own conclusions.