Under System RatingsTestA 128k (minimum setting) Disk Cache 1ghz Dual Processor OTC SSD on IDE Gforce4MX 1.5GBramB 512k Disk Cache 1ghz Dual Processor OTC SSD on IDE Gforce4MX 1.5GBram
C 8mb (default setting) Disk Cache 1ghz Dual Processor OTC SSD on IDE Gforce4MX 1.5GBramD 16MB Disk Cache 1ghz Dual Processor OTC SSD on IDE Gforce4MX 1.5GBram
E 32MB (Max setting) Disk Cache 1ghz Dual Processor OTC SSD on IDE Gforce4MX 1.5GBramin pretty much that order performace of the Disk "write" degrades
the more Disk Cache setting is raised the slower drive performance gets on this Norton Benchmark
there is some data showing that random reads speed up greatly as Disk Cache is increased but with huge penalty to Write speed.
Also performed a real world test moving the MacOSLives OS9 Universal iso at 497mb from the SSD to the SSD
Move time w/ 128K Disk Cache 20 seconds
Move time w/ 32MB Disk Cache 27 seconds
So.... Less (in this Case) is MORE!