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Re: Disk Parameter Tuning Utility?



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On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Bob Fulks wrote:

>    > On a custom built Win2000 machine, the Device
>      Manager:Disk Drives:Disk Properties panel had Write
>      Cache enabled but the write cache was not enabled
>      in the BIOS. I made them consistent and the disk
>      write performance went from 8 to 23 MB/sec and the
>      TradeStation benchmark was again a factor of two
>      faster.

What happens if you lose power before your computer has a chance to write 
out its cache to the disk?  Do you have a UPS?

Best,

John