Write-Caching - Enable or Disable

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       #90

    jonnyhotchkiss said:
    One more q, does RAIDing only apply if you have multiple SSD drives?if so, so ssd caching only apply to RAIDers?

    How to: Set up Intel Smart Response Technology (SSD caching)
    That wouldn't be the same as the write caching in the tutorial.

    Yep, you would need multiple SSDs in a RAID setup for SSD caching mention in the link you posted.

    This feature requires that the SATA controller be set to RAID mode via the system BIOS. Intel® Smart Response Technology is an Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (RST) caching feature that improves computer system performance. It allows a user to configure computer systems with an SSD used as cache memory between the hard disk drive and system memory.

    This provides the advantage of having a hard disk drive (or a RAID volume) for maximum storage capacity while delivering an SSD-like overall system performance experience. Intel® Smart Response Technology caching is implemented as a single drive letter solution; no additional drive letter is required for the SSD device used as cache.

    You can use a SSD to cache your secondary drives and RAID arrays. Just remember all data on the SSD you use will be wiped when you accelerate the other drives. And you can only have one volume accelerated at a time.
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       #91

    Buffer flushing?


    Brink,
    What does buffer-flushing even do to an internal hard disk drive? It won't most likely work, unless you're using a Solid-State disk drive with battery-backed DRAM cache.
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       #92

    Hey HC,

    A flush buffers command, which is available for SCSI and IDE/ATAPI disk devices, instructs the disk to write all cached data to the disk immediately.

    Many disk devices provide enhanced performance through the use of an onboard cache, which provides read-ahead caching for data that is being read from the disk, and write-behind caching (or delayed writes or "lazy" writes) for data that is being written to disk. In some cases, it is important for data to be written to the physical disk immediately, and not retained in the disk's onboard write cache to be written later during an otherwise idle moment. This prevents loss or corruption of this data if the disk or controller (wherever the write cache is implemented) suddenly loses power.

    It is recommended to have write caching enabled for internal hard drives (SSDs & HHDs). :)
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       #93

    I purchased a usb flash drive (Corsair Voyager 16 GB) and after enabling write-cache and clicking OK, the window or dialog box of properties freeze and there is no way regular way to close it, the only way is disconnecting the usb flash, but if i connect it again it the system don't detect it unless i restart the laptop after that i connect it and it works, but the changes to write-cache were not saved. What could cause the freeze? i have 3 more usb flash, one of the is Corsair too and none of them suffers from this freeze.
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  5. Posts : 71,980
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       #94

    Hello LM,

    It's usually recommended to have write caching disabled for USB flash drives since they are removable drives. This way you would be able to simply unplug and plug in the USB flash drive at will when it's finished copying files without having to worry about corrupting them or using Safely Remove Hardware. :)
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       #95

    PLEASE HELP, I got this problem.
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  7. Posts : 71,980
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       #96

    Hello Shnxxx,

    It appears that your Toshiba external USB 3.0 device doesn't support changing its write caching settings.
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  8. Posts : 2,497
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       #97

    It is important to understand that the caching is internal to the drive and not something managed by Windows. Windows can only request that this caching be enabled or disabled and it is up to the drive whether or not to honor this request. It is not required of a drive to do so. If the drive does not support a change there is nothing you can do.
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       #98

    Hello Shawn mate in my pic is the only drive I have and it doesn't look like theta second pic in the tutorial it is the same as the one labeled RAID nothing wrong but am just curious as to why this is so.
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  10. Posts : 71,980
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       #99

    Hey John, :)

    It can vary a bit per drive for exactly what you see based on what type of drive it is. What you see is normal though.
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