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41674	2002-04-04 00:31:00	Hi Everyone, Could anyone please explain what a write behind caching for all drives is? and is it safe to disable it. I have a ME, 1200Mhz,496memory. Thanks and Cheers.	Guest (0)
41675	2002-04-04 04:38:00	Write behind caching temporarily holds information that needs to be written to disk, in memory. This has the effect of speeding up an applications response when writing to disk. The operating system then writes the cached info to disk at its convenience. Turning off WBC may make your programs more sluggish at times (e.g. when saving large amounts of data). There is a potential upside to turning off WBC - if you have a computer failure, there is more chance that you data is on the disk!	Guest (0)
41676	2002-04-04 04:38:00	Write behind caching for all drives tells the computer to cache all of the disk writing operations to that particular drive. Basically, this means that a certain amount of what is being written to the disk is actually being stored in the RAM and isn't written to the disk until either the cache starts overflowing (in which case it starts writing from the bottom of the cache) or the computer is shut down. While enabling this setting increases performance significantly, it is important to mention that if your computer isn't shut down properly, there is a chance that the information isn't properly written to the disk, in which case it will be lost. This really isn't a big deal on your average desktop, but if you are running an important server and you don't have a UPS, it might be a problem.	Guest (0)
41677	2002-04-04 22:11:00	Hi wuppo/Bruce, Thanks guys. I will leave well enough alone. Thanks again.	Guest (0)
41678	2002-04-04 22:13:00	Hi wuppo/Bruce, Thanks guys. I will leave well enough alone. Thanks again.	Guest (0)
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