About performance of an usb ssd


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Should I enable this option
Can something go wrong if windows crashes
I use the SSD(Samsung PSSD 7 1TB)for my games and I never remove it(I actually wish to hide it from the list in the Safely Removal)
Will I actually get better perfomance(currently it feels like the SSD is not working as good as before)
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The drive is connected to my one and only usb-c port
And actually,does that option affects read speed?

In the taskmanager I often see it showing read speeds at bellow 100mb when loading games
 

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Just for info, USB4 port, USB4 Enclosure and USB4 C cable connected external drive. Difference between write caching and quick removal.

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Important to use the SRH though. Quite a big gain. Worth checking out.
 

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vsub said:
Should I enable this option
Can something go wrong if windows crashes
I use the SSD(Samsung PSSD 7 1TB)for my games and I never remove it(I actually wish to hide it from the list in the Safely Removal)
Will I actually get better perfomance(currently it feels like the SSD is not working as good as before)
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The drive is connected to my one and only usb-c port
And actually,does that option affects read speed?

In the taskmanager I often see it showing read speeds at bellow 100mb when loading games
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You will not be able to detect impact on difference in speed on an SSD enabling that optíon.

Write caching is only intended for drives that are slow in writing data to drive such as older usb flash drives and SD cards.

Just leave it at default setting i.e. disable write caching. Changing it would have no significant impact but theoretically you could lose data if disconnected but highly unlikely.

Basically this is a non issue for an SSD.
 

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