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I'm looking to replace a dead hard drive in an older notebook. The current (bad) hard drive is a Toshiba 60 GB 5400 RPM HDD with 16 MB cache. It's very difficult to find replacement ATA-100 notebook drives with 16 MB cache. Do I even need this extra cache? Is twice the cache noticeable?
Yes, it's definitely noticeable, but I don't know enough about it to give an answer. – Sasha Chedygov – 2009-09-21T05:34:50.090
i've updated my answer, see this article: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/understanding-hard-drive-performance,1557-14.html
– roman m – 2009-09-21T06:02:40.503