[GLLUG] HD tweaking?

[STeve Andre']

On Thursday 08 November 2007 14:29:25 Benjamin Cathey wrote:
> One other thing - the new drives have a larger cache (one is 8 meg and one
> is 16) - is this something linux will auto recognize or do I need to do
> something to let it know?
>
> Thanks again guys for all the help,
>
> Benjamin Cathey
> System Administrator
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Linux (or any other OS) won't "see" the cache.   It's there at the disk level,
making for faster reading of data, at least in theory.   If what you are
reading is already in that cache because of an earlier read then subsequent
reads are getting data from ram.  If you're  bouncing around on the disk
a lot then this isn't a help.  But its never slowed things down, and is at 
times a win.

--STeve Andre'