hlshd download speeds

[Nick]

On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 13:27:19 +0100
"RS" <richard22j at zoho.com> wrote:
> 
> Why the Maxtor slows down the HLSHD download in Windows 10 and not
> Windows 7 or Vista and why the slow down is so severe and remarkably
> consistent remain a mystery, but at least I now know what the
> solution is.

There was a thing at some point with Windows where external drives
would not have write caching enabled. Perhaps the different OS versions
and/or different drives have ended up with different settings?

Drive caching being off means that external drives can be unplugged with
minimal chance of file corruption, but it gives a performance penalty.

I stopped using Windows at XP, but winkey-R, devmgmt.msc, enter gets
you to Device Manager on everything I have run into since. Find the HDD,
or perhaps the controller, in Dervish Mangler. Somewhere on a sub-tab
of properties there's a tick box for drive caching. Make sure it's on.

You will have to stop externals disks, used to be a little icon by the
clock, before unplugging them with drive caching on. But it might
address your speed concerns.

Nick