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I haven't noticed any real performance gain from installing the drives with 16mb cache compared with the 8mb ones except in price. the 16mb cache drives were cheaper than the 8' for some unknown reason. I have 2 Maxtor (made By Monkey's) 250GB Sabre drives (SATA) and both were cheaper than their 8mb contemporaries. I'm currently saving up for another pair so that i can run the lot as a striped raid array.
On the subject of SATA Raid arrays, if you are expecting to upgrade to xp64 don't bother- at present there aren't any 64bit raid drivers that i have managed to find and native x64 drivers don't work with my hardware (Most hardware in fact).
The nVidia fx range of cards seem fundamentally flawed to me. I have supplied and fitted around 10 of the things and not one of the systems i fitted them to didn't suffer slow-downs, graphics glitches and in most cases BSOD's relating to the nVidia drivers. Go ATI and sleep better IMHO!
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