Quote Originally Posted by One_Hertz View Post
Without ANY cache the drive would not work AT ALL. It would not stutter without a write buffer. The performance would be less, but it would not stutter. I believe you can turn this write buffer off and try it yourself.
Quote Originally Posted by One_Hertz View Post
dude I am telling you, you can turn off the cache that's on the drive and see for yourself. Works fine, just a lot slower. Doesn't stutter.
You second quote suggests that when you disable the cache in WINDOWS, the drive uses 0 cache in the drive. (Atleast for your quote/point to make sense that is what it would need to suggest)

The first thing that doesn't sound correct, is that you have previously stated that a drive with 0 cache will not work at all.

So which is it?

The drive either uses the minimum 256k cache but not the remaining 15.75mb used for wear leveling when you disable caching, or it uses NO cache at all and as you stated previously the drive will not function.

If the x25-m still uses the 256k cache then my point still stands because the x25-m is still opperating with 1600% more cache than the j-micron even with the wear levelling cache disabled.

So with performance already hit with the wear levelling cache disabled, how do you think the x25-m would fare if you replaced the 256k cache with 16k?