Seagate 250gb 16mb cache vs 8mb cache

beckster · 28 Jan 2008 at 12:02

I bought my new computer today and just checking everything and it seems I have got the 8mb version of the drive and not the 16mb version. Is it worth going back and swapping them out or should I just leave it as is?

balls · 28 Jan 2008 at 19:38

As far as I know the 16mb cache drives are the faster single platter drives. Definitely worth the difference between the two

rpstewart · 28 Jan 2008 at 21:49

There are 16Mb and 8Mb cache versions of the single platter 7200.10, the original double platter 7200.10, the 7200.9 and possibly also the 7200.8 so without further information you can't make that generalisation.

beckster · 28 Jan 2008 at 23:42

It's the single platter, 8mb version (7200.10). Still worth changing?

rpstewart · 28 Jan 2008 at 23:47

I wouldn't bother, it's unlikely you'll notice the difference.

smsmasters · 29 Jan 2008 at 00:27

I have the single platter 250gb 8mb cache version. Peaks at 100MB/s and lows into 70MB/s very fast.