Boost Disk Drive Performance In Windows Vista
Author: Raymond27 May
Here’s a quick tip for Windows Vista on how you can boost your hard disk drive performance. It is not enabled by default because there’s a risk of loosing your data if the disk loses power. Meaning do NOT enable this option if you don’t have a battery backup (UPS). If you’re using laptop, then enabling this option wouldn’t pose any risk since there’s a battery attached on every laptop.
Simply follow the steps below on how to boost your disk drive performance.
1. Go to Start, Control Panel -> Device Manager.
2. Expand Disk Drives.
3. Right-click on your hard disk drive and select Properties.
4. On the Policies tab, check Enable Advanced Performance.
5. Click OK and close Device Manager.
This option only available in Windows Vista. I’ve checked Windows XP and there’s no such option.
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Thank, you !
Dear Raymond,
You can try the program call SuperCache, it can greatly increase the disk performance.
Also,
When I in Windows Vista, i use the USB drive and the Windows ask whether i want to use my drive to increase the disk performance, is it have the same effect as what you have mentioned above? I also know that there is a drive called Innodisk which only purpose is to speed up the disk performance of Windows Vista.
Thanks again for you good advise always!^^
Works only if you don’t use a Raid .
Any issue if this feature is enabled on the long run? I have Vista on my laptop.
>> This option only available in Windows Vista.
This option is also available in Windows Server 2003, where it first appeared.
As mentioned above, there are commercial programs like Supercache, which seem to do the same thing for Windows 2000 and XP.
Readyboost (using a USB drive to help performance) is a different technology for speeding up file acess on the drive, which should work well with this tip, which is there to speed up reads and writes after the file has been accessed.
Innodisk is a company that sells flash based devices, including Readyboost compatible USB drives, and flash based disk drives.
I have Vista Ultimate x64 installed and that option is not available. In fact that whole screen is greyed out with just Optimized for Performance checked.. The “write caching” option isn’t even shown. Does anyone have an idea why? I have seen regular HP computers that I repair where that option is available. Is this only on 32 bit versions of Vista?
Thanks in Advance
Forget my last post. I just figured it out.
I have this option and am able to enable it. the question I have is whether or not it ACTUALLY increases performance? Has anyone benchmarked it?
This option is also available in XP x64 edition, since it is just a 2003 Clone (think of it as 2003 Workstation Edition) > even the service pack 2 redist is for windows server 2003 and x64. Beware this option, if a write operation is occurring and power is lost, the drive arm can cause serious damange (either to itself or a platter). Consider all options – and maybe use this option on your Paging drive (supposing you have already done standard performance optimizations before doing this Advanced Performance setting. Take a faster second drive and dedicate it to large file archiving and your page file. Remove the page file from your system drive and turn this option on whichever drive now contains your paging file. This way, only archival data is subject to loss and the speed performance increase is still felt everytime your page file is referenced. Beware of page faults (if they start occurring turn this off).