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When I ordered my two 1TB drives from a German site, I could not yet find the 1TB drive listed on the Maxtor site.

So, I had to take the vendor's word for the specs.

They claimed that the drives had 32MB caches.

That was one of the things that swayed me to buy these drives.

Now, I see on the Maxtor site, that the drives are listed as having 16MB caches.

Nothing on the box or documentation tells me which is right.

Here's a screen cap showing the different cache sizes.

Which is the right cache size?

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I called Seagate tech support yesterday.

They said this drive has a 16 MB cache, not a 32 MB cache.

A vendor on Amazon.de is making the same mistake as Conrad in mis-reporting this cache size.

[MrButkus]

Maybe they are just ADDING the cache's ? ?

Sounds like a political ad.

[Melonade]

these are ***USB*** drives.  the cache size makes approximately zero difference

usb is too slow for a big cache size to matter in the slightest. 

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Ah, I didn't know the cache size made no difference.

Though I was glad to get a 32MB cache on my 500GB SATA Seagate internal.

Sending these back and getting an ESATA USB combo.

[Melonade]

on an internal drive, a bigger cache is good, thats for sure

also, a bigger cache on an esata drive is good

just not on a usb or firewire 400 drive. 

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Thanks for replying.

The cache size was really the least of my problems with these drives.

Here's why they had to be sent back.