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hi

I want to buy a pc, it says 80GB MAXTOR Hard Drive
ATA133, 7200 RPM & 2MB Cache, I was wondering is that the same as l2 cache or it is better. I am newbie to cache.........or pcs :mrgreen:

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Its kindof the same. If you want any performance, you need atleast 8 mb cache. Its not much more money, but you should notice a performance boost by getting the 8 mb cache vs the 2 mb cache. The hard drive cache is completly seperate from the processor cache too.

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