Title: Disk: basic performs better than Disk Enhanced
Last modified: July 5, 2023

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# Disk: basic performs better than Disk Enhanced

 *  Resolved [Lyk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lyk-1/)
 * (@lyk-1)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disk-basic-performs-better-than-disk-enhanced/)
 * Hello!
 * I have read a little about the differences between Disk basic and Disk enhanced
   and I was wondering if there are any clue as of why disk basic appear to be way
   better in my case.
 *     ```wp-block-code
         Engine 	Time (ms)
       None            1734.51
       Disk: Basic	39.48 [-97.72%]
       Disk: Enhanced	671.22 [-61.30%]
       	Redis	1765.95 [1.81%]
       ```
   
 * Disk Basic seem to be way better (multiple runs confirm the results)
 * The server setup is quite basic, VPS using plesk and nginx/apache with proxy 
   mode enabled, php 8.1 and FPM via Apache.
 * Any suggestion/comments?
 * Thank you!

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Marko Vasiljevic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vmarko/)
 * (@vmarko)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disk-basic-performs-better-than-disk-enhanced/#post-16872235)
 * Hello [@lyk-1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lyk-1/)
 * Thank you for reaching out and I am happy to assist you with this.
 * I’ll be free to assume that these results are from the W3 Total Cache setup Guide.
   
   It is a bit strange that the Disk: Basic is faster since it invokes a PHP script
   instead of serving cached pages using the server’s URL rewriting capabilities,
   skipping PHP.
 * So this may be related on your server configuration.
 * Have you tried testing the TTFB using Gtmetrix and different Caching methods 
   and if the results are the same?
 * Thanks!

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