Looking at a Hitachi HD (Cacheless)

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Gawd
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Hitachi Deskstar HD32000 IDK/7K 2TB

I'm looking at the drive linked above, much cheaper than other options; however, apparently doesn't have the cache. Is this guy any good / worth buying? How severely would the performance be affected? I'm just looking at this for additional storage on an HTPC (local).

Thanks
 
That drive has 16MB of cache. If it's just an additional storage drive for a HTPC, it should be fine.
 
The newegg site doesn't have it listed in specs and a quick look elsewhere suggested it didn't have any; my mistake.

Thanks for the quick reply.
 
A drive without cache is going to have really bad performance in read and writes. It's just that a lot of cache past 16-32MB usually doesn't translate into more performance, but I wouldn't want a drive without cache either.
 
Blue Fox said:
No, it is 32mb.
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I stand corrected. Newegg didn't even have the cache listed, which contributed to the OP's confusion, and the two sources I quickly checked were apparently wrong as well:

https://www.provantage.com/simpletech-hd32000-idk-7k~4SIMT3WY.htm

http://www.compsource.com/pn/HD32000IDK7K/Simple_Technologies_402/

TigerDirect has the correct specs, but I suppose the OP and I should have just consulted the specifications on Hitachi's site.

Thanks for the correction.
 
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