Re: Disk Performance: ISA Cache vs EIDE on Motherboard

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From: Mike
Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 00:00

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In article <830909328snz@myth.demon.co.uk> zeus@myth.demon.co.uk "Mike" writes:

Sorry again folks.

When caches were all the rage, ISTR that a magazine (Byte or PCW I think) did 
a survey of caches and found them disappointing. With the introduction of 
smartdrv and more intelligent disk drivers the advantage has been reduced 
further. If you are running lots of database stuff, then a cache will 
probably be better, but for Windows work an on-board EIDE driver (will your 
cache allow `large' capacity drives?) then the faster burst modes and more 
efficient on-drive cache will probably win out.

Mike

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