Question: How do I tell if my motherboard & disk drive support native command queueing? Is it in the device manager, or somewhere else? Windows has a checkbox for “Enable write caching” which is currently unchecked, but it says “This device does not allow its write cache setting to be modified”.

Thanks!

Answer: If you use the HD Tune tool, its Info tab shows when NCQ is supported in your system. The regular version is free for personal use.

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In this example, NCQ is not supported.