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kathoderayblue

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I bought a Western Dig Ext Hard Drive 160 GB,7200 rpm, but with 2 mb cache for $70. Haven't opened it yet. Besides there not being much cost difference, is the reason for a larger cache that it's much faster? Because I got a great deal on this drive, to get the 8 mb cache would be more like $70 more. So will I notice much difference in back-up time? I'm not a huge computer user. Mostly pictures, some music, and then usual surfing, records, etc. I don't work on the computer every day, mostly just surf and e-mail. And I don't want to pay much more, would rather go down in GB size if necessary. What do you think? I really appreciated the Hdd 101, couldn't believe all the answers to most of my ???? were right there! Thanks!

kathoderayblue:)
 
For external hard drives it's usually considerably cheaper to buy an enclosure and an internal drive. The larger cache drive will be faster but I wouldn't pay $70 more for it.
 
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