Barracuda XT, Barracuda, Barracuda Green, DiamondMax and other desktop SATA and IDE drives

[Oh My..]

Cache Size Seagate ST1000DM003
 Represented as in Seatools Seagate 32MB
 Crystal Disk Info Hdtune these programs
 Seagate is a program that does not recognize the absolute.
Seatools that the most reliable in the
 Even if you do not properly display the cache size
 Can you believe Seatools?
 If the hard disk, users ST1000DM003
 See Seatools to check the cache size.
 Although officially the cache size is 64MB
 Seatools will look into the 32MB.

 

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One would expect that SeaTools should be able to retrieve the drive's actual cache size using Seagate's vendor specific ATA commands, but it appears that it is subject to the same 32MB limitation as all the other tools.

Detecting Buffer or Cache Size in ATA Hard Disk Drives:
http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/203631en