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WD Black 64mb vs 128mb of Cache

RRGT19
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Hi,

I have noticed that the WD Black 1TB has 64mb Cache and the 6TB has 128mb.

This is a big difference?, what does it do really?.

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it makes your pc perform 2X faster . :P

black drives are meant for performance . high read/writes . the cache really doesnt matter much . go with the drive you need wd red,green,black,blue ect

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Cache is solid state storage much faster than the hard drive so whenh you move a file to the drive smaller than 128MB (or 64MB) it will transfer near SSD speeds.

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It caches small amounts of data that are being read from a lot. It also caches small files being written to the drive. It doesn't make that much of a difference, and the Black drives are designed for performance anyways. Blue drives are the all around go-to. 

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2 minutes ago, Himommies said:

Whats the price diffrence

black 6tb $260

blue 6tb $215

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1 minute ago, RodoGodo19 said:

black 6tb $260

blue 6tb $215

Blue for sure

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11 minutes ago, RodoGodo19 said:

but that is for NAS purposes.

It still uses the SATA 6 standard, not really any difference that I know of from a "non-NAS" HDD. It is just more durable (and maybe a tad slower) than a barracuda is the only difference I can find. 

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