This tip has been around for a while but your risk data loss in a power failure if your computer isn’t on a UPS (Uninterruptable Power Supply) is increased. Because laptops have a battery, this can be an ideal setting.
- Right Click on Computer and select Manage
- Click on Device Manager
- Expand Disk Drives
- Right click on the hard drive and select Properties for that hard drive (you can also double click the drive
- On the Policies tab:
Check Turn off Windows write-cache buffer flushing on the device - Hit OK and close the Device Manager
[...] Improve your laptop hard drive speed [...]
DO NOT DO THIS.
There’s a reason this is not enabled by default. Read what it says under policies and DO NOT do this. The only case where you should do this is if you have a storage controller with a battery backup.
The article says to have a UPS or a laptop.