Re: HDD writes slowly
- From: "SA" <nospam@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:50:26 -0500
What other software problems could cause this?
Sounds like cahce may be disabled. Assuming your running Xp, go to disk
management, right click the disk0 (not the drive letter) and click
properties.
Under Policies, there is a check box to enable write caching.
What this does, is allow the OS to write to the disk, once the data is in
cache then a OK is returned to the OS allowing it to move on. Otherwise it
will wait for it to be written to the media which takes longer. From what
I've seen about 1/2 performace is what you would see.
Some drive controllers and the drives themselves also have cache that you
may be able to enable and improve performance. For critical data this is not
recommended since anything in cache is lost if you loose power. If you do
these things I recommend a good UPS with software to properly shutdown your
system.
A fragmented drive will also have slow performance.
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