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Speed Up SATA Hard
Drives & USB Drives
In Windows Vista
Window Vista has
built in support for
SATA and external
drives, but they
seem to be slow
because the
advanced write
cache features
aren’t automatically
activated. With just
few steps you can
enable them and get
a much faster
response. First you
need to go to the
Device Manager
which you can go
directly by just
typing device in the
start menu search
box or just type in
devmgmt.msc in
command line. Now
open the Disk drives
section and right
click on your hard
drive. Now click on
the Policies tab and
you’ll find this dialog
box: Now click the
checkbox for Enable
advanced
performance, and
you are done. Write
caching isn ’t
enabled by default
as removing devices
directly without
using the “Safely
remove removable
device”may lose
your data, so be
cautious when
enabling this options.
But enabling this
option also when
speeding up
performance
significantly when
writing to the disk.
Now select the
external drive and
double click it to
open up the
properties screen.
Then just change the
setting to “Optimize
for performance”
and hit OK to
continue. You’ll have
to reboot for all the
settings to take
effect. Next time
you boot into
Windows Vista you ’ll
see faster bootup
times and better
disk writing
performance.