Disable Write Caching on Your Hard Drive

Write caching on a hard drive is a great way to boost your hard drive performance. Unfortunately, it has a negative effect. If you’re enabling write caching on your hard drive, all traffic of data will put on your cache memory first then your hard drive plates. So, this why your hard drive performance will increases but if your electricity is turn off suddenly you’ll data could be lost.

I know, that’s a hard decision, if you enable the write caching, you have a risk if your computer lost its power but other side if you turn it off, your hard drive performance will decreased.
By default, Windows XP enable the write caching on your hard drive. And if you choose to disable it, follow these steps:

  1. Open My Computer by double click My Computer icon on desktop or single click on Start menu.
  2. After My Computer is opened, right click your hard drive icon and then click Properties menu.
  3. Click Hardware tab; make sure your hard drive hardware driver is chosen.
  4. Then click Properties button.
  5. In your hard drive Properties window, make sure that Enable write caching on this disk option is unchecked. Click OK button.
  6. Once again, click OK to close your hard drive properties window.
  7. Now, write caching on your hard drive is disable.

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