For those who have been mulling over the idea of picking up one of the 80GB WD drives with the 8MB cache, but don't know if there is any real difference, there is. After picking one up myself, I compared it to a Seagate Barracuda IV drive, which isn't really a slouch in it's own right. The results are below in the screens I took of HD Tach 2.61
Oh, and for those who are diehard Sandra fans, the results were something like this:
* Seagate - 22,833
*WD - 32,230
Simple math tells us that the new WD drive scored a very impressive 41.1% higher than the Seagate. :D
Oh, and for those who are diehard Sandra fans, the results were something like this:
* Seagate - 22,833
*WD - 32,230
Simple math tells us that the new WD drive scored a very impressive 41.1% higher than the Seagate. :D
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