Oh no, this one came from I think the win98 era. I read about it in some (paper!) computer magazines, I had no or barely internet at the time. SDDs had not ye

Oh no, this one came from I think the win98 era. I read about it in some (paper!) computer magazines, I had no or barely internet at the time. SDDs had not yet been invented. Once one vendor decided to screw us, the others had no choice. It was trivial for benchmarks to work around it, too: Just send more data so the cache becomes irrelevant. The whole episode took a few months at most. I dont remember if they flat-out ignored the flush, or started a flush but didn't wait for completion.