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BeerCheeze · Rated XXX

I'm not sure what they mean by "caching". There could be several possible things they are thinking.

1) Pagefile - They might be talking about moving you system pagefile from the main HDD to the 2nd HDD. This generally improves performance because you don't have 1 HDD doing all the application, OS, and pagefile work.

2) Application caching - They may want you to set up your duplication application so that it caches the data to be duped to a second drive. So like with the pagefile you have another HDD doing the work.

Both of these are good things to do, however if you are running IDE drives it will make little difference unless you can put them both on separate IDE interfaces. Running master/slave with IDE HDD's will not give you much, if any, performance increase.