Under the Hardware Properties Policies of my USB drive should I:
Optimize USB for quick removal
OR
Optimize for performance?
Does it make a difference?
Is this for the device or the PC?
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Write caching.
With the quick removal setting, write caching is disabled, and you will not mess things up much if you just yank the drive.
The performance setting makes things faster, but more can get screwed up if you yank the drive.
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It is an internal setting for the PC for that port/drive?
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In theory windows will uniquely identify the "device" (flash drive, usb hard drive, etc) and use the settings the next time you "insert" that device.
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Things have got to get better, they can't get worse, or can they?
...because I don't always use the same USB port.
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I think the settings are stored on the drive actually, not the host computer.
I keep mine so I can yank it, due to the fact that if I'm late for a class, I really gotta go.
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Answered my own question.
Windows asks you to reboot after you change the settings. So it is per PC.
I also did it on my laptop with the same flash drive and it was still set for removal.
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