To Enable or Disable Write-Caching for a Storage Device in Windows 7?

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My WD SATA 6 HD has several UNSAFE SHUT DOWN COUNTs.

Should one enable or disable it? I know there is a performance boost
in having it enabled, but is it noticable? I have an i7 930 CPU.

 

[Rod Speed]

My WD SATA 6 HD has several UNSAFE SHUT DOWN COUNTs.

Reported by what ?

Should one enable or disable it?

Depends on how you managed to shut it down unsafely.

I know there is a performance boost
in having it enabled, but is it noticable?

Normally not.

 

[Man-wai Chang]

Should one enable or disable it? I know there is a performance boost

in having it enabled, but is it noticable? I have an i7 930 CPU.

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[Arno]

My WD SATA 6 HD has several UNSAFE SHUT DOWN COUNTs.

Aem, there is no such field in SMART AFAIK, so this is
likely not a disk issue.

Arno

 

[Yousuf Khan]

Aem, there is no such field in SMART AFAIK, so this is
likely not a disk issue.

Arno

It's probably an internal count in Windows.

Yousuf Khan

 

[Arno]

It's probably an internal count in Windows.
Yousuf Khan

Something like it, I suspect. The point is that the HDD buffer
is quite unlikely to be responsible. More like the OS buffer
and if that gets disabled, things will get dog-slow.

Arno