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Problems with Windows not enabling Write Caching...can I do this in registry?

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AtomicAlien

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It all started in this thread. Interestingly enough the VIA Miniport Drivers made my Maxtor DiamondMax 8 appear as a SCSI device, even though it's drive name has not changed. (It also made the IDE controllers appear as: Primary BM Ultra DMA Channel.) So all the properties in the Hardware Manager have changed also, however when I go to the tab with Write Caching all the options are greyed in.

And when I ran Microsoft BootVis it said "Warning: Write Caching not enabled!". Maybe im crazy for trying to get more than 92MB/s buffered read out of this hard drive (according to SiSoftSandra) but Im gonna try. 😉🙂

So my question was, because I cannot enable Write Caching using the drive properties is there a way to do this with the registry?

Thank you!
 
Everything you mentioned in that post is totally normal. And even if it wasn't, buffered reads are 100% meaningless. Buffered reads from a piece of crap like Sandra are 200% meaningless.
 
ATTO measures sustained transfer rates, which along with seek time are all that matter. HDTach measures both, but last time I checked you need to pay for the NT/2K/XP version. Your seek time though is something that will only change if the drive is malfunctioning so ATTO is fine.
 
Originally posted by: jaeger66
Run the disk benchmark util, set transfer size to 512 to 512, Total length to 16MB.
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I presume this is the standard? Anyway, mine got 45MB/s sustained. 🙁 I dont feel so significant having a 101MB/s burst anymore.
 
Originally posted by: AtomicAlien

I presume this is the standard? Anyway, mine got 45MB/s sustained. 🙁 I dont feel so significant having a 101MB/s burst anymore.
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That sounds right. 45MB/s is how fast data is being moved off your drive's platters. The 10K RPM WD Raptor does about 62, so 45 isn't too bad.
 
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