https://community.hpe.com/t5/proliant-servers-ml-dl-sl/p400-raid-controller-256mb-vs-512mb-cache-worth-the-upgrade/m-p/5708749#M131106 <P>Am setting up an older ML350 G5 server to run VMWare ESXi 5 and was wondering whether it is worth it to upgrade the cache from 256 to 512MB? Thanks.</P> Mon, 02 Jul 2012 22:53:17 GMT DJHess 2012-07-02T22:53:17Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/proliant-servers-ml-dl-sl/p400-raid-controller-256mb-vs-512mb-cache-worth-the-upgrade/m-p/5708749#M131106 <P>Am setting up an older ML350 G5 server to run VMWare ESXi 5 and was wondering whether it is worth it to upgrade the cache from 256 to 512MB? Thanks.</P> Mon, 02 Jul 2012 22:53:17 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/proliant-servers-ml-dl-sl/p400-raid-controller-256mb-vs-512mb-cache-worth-the-upgrade/m-p/5708749#M131106 DJHess 2012-07-02T22:53:17Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/proliant-servers-ml-dl-sl/p400-raid-controller-256mb-vs-512mb-cache-worth-the-upgrade/m-p/5710701#M131140 It depends why you are looking for a upgrade , if their is large amount of data always being read/write to/from the drives it is worth upgrading, you may know that the data will be first written to the cache and then it goes to the drive Wed, 04 Jul 2012 11:46:34 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/proliant-servers-ml-dl-sl/p400-raid-controller-256mb-vs-512mb-cache-worth-the-upgrade/m-p/5710701#M131140 Goutham_Sabala 2012-07-04T11:46:34Z