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- From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
- Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
- Subject: Re: HELP. Need caching program for CD-rom....
- Message-ID: <C1HBH9.sz@smsc.sony.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:55:53 GMT
- References: <PAULCHEN.93Jan21145725@groucho.cs.uni-sb.de> <KT40KQC@math.fu-berlin.de> <1993Jan26.132846.21624@gallant.apple.com>
- Sender: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
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- Organization: Sony Microsystems, San Jose, CA
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- In article <1993Jan26.132846.21624@gallant.apple.com>, blob@gallant.apple.com (Brian Bechtel) writes:
- |> >>We are looking for a disk caching program, that is able to cache cd-roms.
- |> >Is there such a thing for Macs, too ? (Apple CD300i drive)
- |>
- |> Two of them:
- |>
- |> Speedy CD from ShirtPocket Software
- |> FWB CD-ROM Toolkit, from FWB
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- It might be useful to talk about what these programs do and how much they
- help.
-
- I read a recent article on the PC CD caches, and the tests the authors
- ran only showed a 10% (at best) increase in speed. I believe that
- these were just buffer caches (a la SmartDrive).
-
- Aren't the Mac CD "caches" actually a type of disk mirrors, in
- which the file information from the CD is cached on the hard disk?
- That would probably help a lot more than just a read buffer cache,
- especially with faster drives like the CD300i (I have the Sony
- version of this drive on my PC, and don't feel it's worth buying
- into a read buffer cache, but I'd love to see a mirror cache).
-
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