Understanding “Buffers” and “Cached” from free command

Question

This has been asked earlier but don\'t want to update the same thread again as it was a old thread .

Want to clarify myself on the \"buffers\" and \"cache\" column from

Answer 1

The way I've always understood it is that the buffer area of memory is for temporary storage of data being read from or written to devices (including disks), while the cache area of memory is for speeding up future reads from a device.