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.
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