ImaginAsian
03-29-2002, 04:20 PM
The gang over at Xbit Labs (www.xbitlabs.com) have taken the Fastest IDE Hard Drive for a spin, the Western Digital 1200JB 120GB with 8MB of Cache!
We have already had a lot of opportunities to make sure that the cache-buffer size has direct influence on the HDD performance. For example, in the beginning of last year, WD Protege 200EB HDD with 2MB cache buffer defeated completely IBM DTLA 3050x0 with 512KB cache-buffer. All of you should also remember a not very successful experiment carried out by Quantum with their Lct20 model, which was equipped with only 128KB cache memory.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/storage/wd1200jb/box.jpg
I've got my sights on this sweet drive for sure. Read all about this screamer HERE (http://www.xbitlabs.com/storage/wd1200jb/)!
We have already had a lot of opportunities to make sure that the cache-buffer size has direct influence on the HDD performance. For example, in the beginning of last year, WD Protege 200EB HDD with 2MB cache buffer defeated completely IBM DTLA 3050x0 with 512KB cache-buffer. All of you should also remember a not very successful experiment carried out by Quantum with their Lct20 model, which was equipped with only 128KB cache memory.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/storage/wd1200jb/box.jpg
I've got my sights on this sweet drive for sure. Read all about this screamer HERE (http://www.xbitlabs.com/storage/wd1200jb/)!