Cache or SATA III 6GB/S Connections, What is more Important?

Hello, i am creating new PC i am confuse with hard drive selection i have two option to chose from please help me which is better ? (1) from WD with SATA III with 16 mb cache (2) from wd with SATA II with 32mb cache below is my configuration Intel core i5 2320 Intel DZ68DB mother board 16gb corsair DDR3 1333 ASUS DVD writer Cache is more important than SATA connection with regards to HDDs.…
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HDD to HDD Internal Transfer Rates

Only recently though, have I seen this problem really metastasize; reduced transfer rates during multiple HDD to HDD file transfers. First of all, I understand that sending files “single-stream” from one HDD to another in a single transfer allows for the most direct Read/Write instance, and thus the fastest rates, and that queuing multiple transfers slows that down because the drives are having to do a lot more platter skating, but what I have a hard time understanding is where is ALL that bandwidth overhead going?…
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Hard Drive Wipe Tool: Active KillDisk

Anyone know of any program that will completely wipe a hard drive and make files unrecoverable? I have 3 comp from work I have to do this to, and need some info on a good program to do it with. Thanks Active@ KillDisk: Powerful and compact software that allows you to destroy all data on hard disks, USB drives and floppy disks completely, excluding any possibility of future recovery of deleted files and folders.…
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