hdd safe to enable advanced performance?

[j0j081]

On a new sata hdd is it recommended to enable advanced performance even without a backup power supply or is it still too risky? I've read it gives quite a nice boost in some cases.

 

[BoboKatt]

Honestly with many new drives being so reliable... I've always had that enabled on all, laptops too and never had an issue. On a side note you can benchmark your drive before and then after enabling that and personally I never really noted a huge improvement.

 

[heymrdj]

No, you need a UPS to enable that. If the files that are being cached are windows files when you loose power, you're looking at a corrupted OS or possibly even file system. Laptops are safe for it when you have the batteries in them. Desktops need a UPS to have that feature safely enabled.

 

[Nothinman]

You don't _need_ a UPS but it's highly recommended because anything cached in memory will be lost when you lose power. A lot of drives make it impossible to disable their write cache because it makes them benchmark better anyway so there's a chance you'll lose something anyway.