Seagate SATA-II HDD . . . 8mb / 16mb cache !!?

[Big Beere]

Hi Im just wondering if i buy a seagate SATA-2 hdd, will it work fine on the ASUS A8N32-SLI Mobo ? (im pretty sure it will !?!!)


Another thing, Im getting 250gb Hdd but there's two types of HDD's (£2 between the price)

Whats the difference between:

Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 250GB SATA II 7200rpm 16Mb Cache 11ms 300Mb/s

AND....

Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 250GB SATA II 7200rpm 8Mb Cache 11ms 300Mb/s

16mb & 8mb Cache ?!? - Is it worth getting the 16mb cache?


Cheerz,

BIG B 8)

[beardyman]

yeah, they are badass.

[Big Beere]

yeah, they are badass.

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Big B 8)

[Big Beere]

yooo


S-ATA-2, will it work on the ASUS A8N32-SLI Mobo.. because i want to order it today :P

cheeeeeeeerz

BIG B 8)

[gwendes]

yeah, they are badass.

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LOL

:roll:

[GN]

There is no point getting SATA 2 hard disks. The beefit whch you get is 0%. Unless you have a SATA 2 Hd with 16MB + Cache.

Also Get the SATA HD with 16MB cache.

[Nox]

i'd pay £2 for 16Mb cache over an 8Mb, the performance benefits are worth it - just, really only just though.

Nox

[GN]

Personaly i would get the raptor series as these are in the middle of both PATA/SATA and SCSI. I would go for all SCSI if it was not the fact it takes about 12hrs to boot your machine and also the disks over heat and are very unreliable.

What you are looking for with hard disks is the avarege read/write times. This is the most critical of things that you should look for in a hard disk. (ok and large cache. 8MB is ok but 16MB is ideal for large hard disks like 500Gb etc.. but you will never really use it all) Moden hard disks cant read fast anoth to keep up with the media (cables :wink: ) data transfure speed. (really only SCSI can just get to 1.5 data tansfure if your lucky.) So this idear of woow wee 3.0Ghz or what ever tansfure rate on SATA hard disks are really quite a wast of time and money for reserch.

What you are looking for really is the speed at which the pin gets from one bit of data to the next. So there for the rpm's of the disk matter, and also the amont of cylinders (disks) the HD has. (thats if it strips the data like a RAID-0, hence why RAID-0's are good with 36GB Raptors.)

So basicly I would get me 2 or 4 Raptors @ 36GB and RAID-0 them. Then you would get the best of both worlds. Speed for data read write and also reliabilitys and not having to wait 100years for your Pc to boot up.

Though if the hard disks pulsed the data going though the media you would there for need a large amonth or cache (16MB) and you would most likly use the full transfure rate of the media. But to my knolege this yet does not exist and its quite pointless.

[GN]

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