Is CD-ROM acceleration software worth the money?
—————————————————– Probably not. A test in the December, 1994 MacUser found very little benefit from using such software. In general, MacUser found that the faster the drive, the less benefit it gained from (or the more it was harmed by) caching. Of the programs tested, CharisMac’s AllCache was the best. Four of the six programs tested degraded the performance of the Apple CD300e Plus. Acceleration software works by caching recently-accessed or frequently-accessed information in RAM, or on the hard drive. Because RAM and the hard drive are much faster than a CD-ROM drive, you can, in principle, retrieve information from the cache much more quickly than from the CD-ROM The problem is, caching software doesn’t help at all when accessing information that’s not stored in the cache (a cache miss). In some cases it can actually decrease performance, because the computer wastes time searching the caches. It’s also worth noting that any well-designed CD-ROM d
