Hi, so I'm experimenting with DrivePool and it seems to be using write caching even if the individual drives in the pool have it disabled, basically overriding it.
But for the Covecube Virtual Disk driver there's no Policies tabs in Windows' Device Manager so write caching can't be disabled.
The problem I have is that writing files to the pooled drive says it's done within seconds with inaccurately high speeds (due to caching) but I can see the actual speeds of each physical drives and they keep writing in the background even minutes after the writing was supposedly completed. Same even on SSDs. I want to see the real progress of writing the files, without extra caching, not just a promise of it being done soon in the background.
The caching also screws with tools like HD Tune Pro claiming the read speeds are around 6 gigabytes/second for a pool with 3 SATA drives. It's basically a small built in RAM drive.
I get the massive benefit of caching but I don't want it for my usecase and wondering if it can be disabled. Thanks.
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Hi, so I'm experimenting with DrivePool and it seems to be using write caching even if the individual drives in the pool have it disabled, basically overriding it.
But for the Covecube Virtual Disk driver there's no Policies tabs in Windows' Device Manager so write caching can't be disabled.
The problem I have is that writing files to the pooled drive says it's done within seconds with inaccurately high speeds (due to caching) but I can see the actual speeds of each physical drives and they keep writing in the background even minutes after the writing was supposedly completed. Same even on SSDs. I want to see the real progress of writing the files, without extra caching, not just a promise of it being done soon in the background.
The caching also screws with tools like HD Tune Pro claiming the read speeds are around 6 gigabytes/second for a pool with 3 SATA drives. It's basically a small built in RAM drive.
I get the massive benefit of caching but I don't want it for my usecase and wondering if it can be disabled. Thanks.
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