Increase the performance of your SATA disk drive

Mon, 05/28/2007 - 09:50 — Ciprian

Nowadays, SATA hard disk drives are very common. They offer a series of advantages compared to older models, one of them being the improved performance. Windows Vista not only offers built-in support for SATA hard disks, but it also allows you to squeeze a little more performance from them.

So... how do you increase the performance of your SATA hard disk?

First, go to Control Panel, and type "device" in the upper right search box. The first search result should be Device Manager.

Click on this option and the Device Manager window will open. Go to Disk Drives and select the SATA hard disk you want to speed up.

Right click on it and select Properties. The Device Properties window will open. Here, go to the Policies tab, check the Enable advanced performance option and click on OK.

Windows Vista will now improve the performance of your SATA hard disk by enhancing write caching.

NOTE: In order to make these changes, your user needs to be an administrator. If your computer does not have a backup power supply such as an UPS(Uninterruptible power supply) it is not advisable to enable this option. I personally had issues with data corruption on computers without an UPS. It is better to be safe than sorry.
If you have an UPS or a laptop with a working battery, then enabling this option does not put your data at risk.

Comments

Tue, 07/24/2007 - 10:51 — diatonic (not verified)

Umm, sure it puts your data at risk

If your power supply failed, even on a UPS, your data would be at risk. You would need redundant power supplies with a UPS, or a battery-backed RAID card for that setting not to put your data at risk.

Just my 2 cents,

.:diatonic:.

Mon, 09/10/2007 - 11:51 — Anonymous (not verified)

I agree with the above. Cant

I agree with the above. Cant risk it!!

Mon, 04/14/2008 - 01:24 — Etherel15 (not verified)

Laptops

This should work excellently for laptops though with their batteries

Thu, 07/17/2008 - 12:03 — Scion85 (not verified)

Damned if you do......

It's not really much of a risk if you think about it. Any computer that suddenly loses power is always highly susceptible to data loss. You can't say it's never going to happen. Besides, if you are running with a UPS, or a laptop battery, you shouldn't have any trouble anyways, unless you're an idiot and forget to turn your shit off before the charge runs out.

Thu, 08/14/2008 - 21:44 — OvErDrIvE (not verified)

This only make data copy

This only make data copy seem faster by telling you the copy/ move is done, but in reality it is still busy in the background. Using this can lead to loss of data and even files that are damn hard to delete. I have done enough lab testing with this to say that it is a risk and pointless.

Wed, 11/12/2008 - 06:38 — Anonymous (not verified)

I dont think it's advisable

I dont think it's advisable even with UPS or laptop batteries. if your system hangs and you need to reboot, that would result to data loss right?

just correct me if ever im wrong. better to play it safe.

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