Such outcome was expected because of two reasons, one related with the disk drive mechanism, and other related with the disk cache. For writing, the disk drive mechanism should position read/write head exactly to avoid damage of neighbouring bytes, while for reading such precision is not necessary and because of that reading from disk is a bit faster than writing.

Although in the beginning the modelling of the disk mechanism seemed much more complex than the modelling of the other system components, especially the disk cache, it proved to be a wrong assumption.

A single solid-state disk cache may be leveraged across the entire networked storage infrastructure.

The smartDAX unit is a NAS Head device with scalable disk cache. The processor in the smartDAX unit controls the NFS mount point, runs the Hierarchical Storage Management software and controls the CD or DVD jukebox.

If the disk cache is set to the default setting, and you perform disk intensive operations, the machine may freeze.

One possibility is to use it as a traditional disk cache; another is as part of the cooperative cache.

Click on Cache just below that, and then click the Clear Disk Cache button.

These H50 motherboards use four of IBM's 32- bit PowerPC 604e processors and can support up to 3Gb of main memory, which is used as disk cache memory in the Tarpon array.

For Navigator, go to Edit, choose Preferences, click on Advanced and then the Clear Disk Cache button.

When a browser caches data, it stores information about your current browsing session into your RAM, and past sessions on your hard drive (disk cache).

A number of drives now available have a seek time of just over 200 ms; some even boast a seek time of 40 ms with the use of a 256K on-drive disk cache (data buffer) and the Smart-Drive utility included with DOS 6.2.

The PC version of RefMan conflicted with a DOS disk cache and with WordPerfect extended display drivers.

A disk cache dynamically duplicates part of the contents of your hard disk in fast RAM so that it can be read (and sometimes written to) at RAM speed.