>>I've heard that it is important to disable disk caching on the faster drives. Is that correct?
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>Where did you hear that? Disabling disk cache WILL decrease performance A LOT. That defeats the purpose of 15K drives.
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>>We're having difficulty turning off the cache on one of the machines and our hardware guy wants to make sure this is what we want.
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>And rightfully so. Bear in mind that sometimes high-performance drives are attached to controllers that implement a cache in hardware, and which can't be turned off.
Sounds good. I'll leave that setting alone. Thanks.
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