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Hard drives write cache is always enabled at startup.
I want to disable my hard drives write cache to protect my machine in the event of a power
failure, ie me having to to a hard reboot when it has frozen up.
However I notice it keeps being re-enable at start-up.
Any idea on how to fix it?
The drive is actually one I took out of a USB drive (western digital) wonder if that is relevant?
Or it it the same for any drive?
Also I wonder a bit about the wisdom of doing so anyway I think it might reduce the life span of the
drive, it sound different with it disabled, maybe you would expect that though??
I have not had to do a hard reset for a long time now, over three weeks!! (Gosh it is bad when
3 weeks in a long time between critical events!!), although it is 5 weeks since I had to reinstall windows!!
I guess I had some critical events ie kernal power loss after 5 weeks ago with did not require a reinstall.
I think I improved thing but not allowing the hard drive to be turned off for a very long time ie over a
day which mean it is never turned off except at when I shut it down myself at the end of the day.