JohnMirror Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Hi.I wanna change the buffer size of the drives on my computer.For example I wanna increase it for a HDD or USB key, or to set it 0 for a ramdrive...Is it possible? And if it is, how...?Thank you for any help.Best regards, John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allen2 Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 (edited) If you're speaking about the write cache, you can enable it or disabled in the device manager using the properties of the drive and the policy tab.See also this MS KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811392 about managing the cache from command line. Edited February 13, 2011 by allen2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnMirror Posted February 13, 2011 Author Share Posted February 13, 2011 Thank youBut I wanna know also how to change the size of the buffer, no just enabling/disabling it..And could someone change the word "buufer" from the topic's title into "buffer"? I can't change anymore... Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 (edited) Thank youBut I wanna know also how to change the size of the buffer, no just enabling/disabling it..And could someone change the word "buufer" from the topic's title into "buffer"? I can't change anymore... Thank you.Maybe change it form "buufer" to "cache" ,The "buffer" is normally intended as "hardware", as in:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_bufferLooky here :http://www.uwe-sieber.de/ntcacheset_e.htmljaclaz Edited February 13, 2011 by jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnMirror Posted February 13, 2011 Author Share Posted February 13, 2011 (edited) Yes, you're right And thank you.Later edit:I tested the programs and I don't see how to set the cache min/max values for every drive.NtCacheSetter sets min and max value but not for each drive.Anyway I tried some values but I didn't see a change in what Task Manager reports.SetSystemFileCacheSize is not for Windows XP.FileCacheTest is for testing. Edited February 13, 2011 by JohnMirror Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Yep The message was: YOU CANNOT. (but there are some small tweaks that may mitigate the issues).More here:http://smallvoid.com/article/winnt-system-cache.htmljaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnMirror Posted February 13, 2011 Author Share Posted February 13, 2011 Yep The message was: YOU CANNOT. (but there are some small tweaks that may mitigate the issues).More here:http://smallvoid.com/article/winnt-system-cache.htmljaclazOk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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