Would a media server benefit from an 8mb cache drive?

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nomar

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I'm rebuilding a Windows 2003 media server and I have a bunch of hard drives to choose from. The server is a Tbird 1.3 with 768MB PC133.

I have the following hard drives I could use:
ATA133 120GB 8mb cache 7200rpm
ATA133 60GB 2mb cache 7200rpm(x2)
ATA100 40GB 2mb cache 7200rpm

Would I benefit from the 8mb cache drive? I'll be serving music to 3 different locations, but probably not at the same time. I'll also occasionally stream a movie and will use it for digital photo backups and just to mess around with 2003 server. Network is a wired/wireless with a 24 port switch. My SOHO router will do the routing.

Any suggestions?
 
If you're only going to be serving some music and the ocassional movie to like 3 people, whether it is 8mb cache or not probably won't make much of a difference. I doubt you'll notice any gain in that scenario. So pretty much just pick whichever drive you want.
 
It will not make a difference which drive you choose. You only have a 100Mbps across the wire. Now if you are doing 1Gbps then you might, and I mean might, see some improvement.
 
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