your problem is you bought a maxtor

 

My External has been working great since I bought it...

What's wrong with it? :noes:

 

bad cable. replace the signal cable.

i've seen this a million times when i worked at adaptec. replace the cable even if it is brand new. quality tolerance for sata cables are crap.

 

Windows Delayed Write Failure = windows lost connection to the drive and couldnt finish writing what was stored in the cache.

happens with usb drives alot that have write caching enabled. with internals, its either a. bad cable or b. bad drive.

 

Thanks guys, I'll check into the cable and caching to see what's going on

 

it has nothing to do with the caching. also you can't change anything on the drives cache so don't waste your time.

 

Good idea, couldn't hurt to try that.

 

oh? I thought I could tweak the registry for it...oh well.

Btw, to those that claimed Maxtor is bad, they aren't so anymore since they're now a part of Seagate with similar 5yrs warranty.

WD is what I'm worrying about since I had couple WD failed on me before.

 

tweeking the registry will only likely effect cache flushing done by the system not on the individual drive itself. the system can flush the cache 10 times but as soon as it gets to the cache on the drive, the drive will send back a signal back to the OS that the data has been written. in actuality the data is still in the cache of the drive and hasn't been written on the drive yet.