Do harddrives access frequently used info faster

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Seems like if I am playing a game and a map comes up that I never play it will take longer to load. If I commonly play on a certain map will the hardrive load it faster?

[[UFO] rad87gn]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_cache

[_I_]

no, it depends where on the platters the info is

but only by about 4-6ms
depending on the drive

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Thanks for info

[[UFO] rad87gn]

Yes, if you load something once it will load faster a second time due to that info being now loaded in cache (memory). There is some on the disk drive itself and there is a cache system that the OS has using RAM.

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Originally posted by rad87gn:

Yes, if you load something once it will load faster a second time due to that info being now loaded in cache (memory). There is some on the disk drive itself and there is a cache system that the OS has using RAM.

You think there is enough cache to store a enitre map?

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drives only have 8-64mb of cache
and id bet more is used to cache windows files than games

[[UFO] rad87gn]

My Windows cache right now out of 16gb of RAM is using 9gb of RAM. You tell me. ;-)