I attended my favorite storage conference last week in Silicon Valley, File And Storage Technology (FAST). This is the foremost gathering of corporate and academic researchers and practitioners in the ...

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A disk or memory cache that supports writing. Data normally written to memory or to disk by the CPU is first written into the cache. During idle machine cycles, the data are written from the cache ...

With modern hardware upgrades and caching techniques, you can significantly speed up an external hard drive's write times. Hard drives include a cache area for storing frequently accessed data, but ...

Recently I discussed the importance of write caching in a VMware environment. A key issue when addressing write caching is protecting the cache until data is written to the hard disk. Although ...

A disk or memory cache that supports the caching of writing. Data written by the CPU to memory or to disk is also written into the cache. Write performance is not improved with this method. However, ...

So while mucking around I noticed that my external hard drive is set to 'Optimize for Quick Removal' which disables write caching for the drive. Windows tells me this means it is safe to just yank the ...

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Is it possible to disable write-behind caching/delayed writes in Windows 2000 for removable drives?<P>Windows 9x had this option (System Properties > Performance > File System > Removable Disk).<P>I ...