How to Optimize USB Storage for Better Performance on Windows 10

[learninmypc]

According to Microsoft, Windows 10 no longer optimizes external storage devices for “better performance” as of the October 2018 Update. Instead, it optimizes them for “quick removal.” Here’s what that means—and how to change it if you like.

We don’t think every Windows user has to change this option. Despite how tempting “better performance” sounds, the default “quick removal” policy is fine for most people. FULL ARTICLE

 

[DelJo63]

The straw man question is:

• What is "better performance" anyway?
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• How does that compare to "Quick Removal"?

 

[learninmypc]

Good question(s).

 

[Evernessince]

It's much better this way. Previously you could be copying files to a USB disk and the windows file transfer dialog would complete but in fact data is still being written from the cache to the USB disk. Now there is 0% chance of that happening and corrupting files. The performance difference shouldn't be much, if anything in most cases.