Re: SATA write performance problems (on HP MicroServer)

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

ef%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost (Edgar =?iso-8859-1?B?RnXf?=) writes:

>> There's a BIOS setting somewhere where you can enable write caching
>OK, that bumped my write performance to >70MB/s
>Remains the questuin whether that's safe to turn on.

Probably depends on whom you ask. If you ask me, the risk is much smaller
than the risk of unnoticed data corruption caused by never doing a fsck
"because the filesystem is journaled".

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