Vista Enables Advanced Performance Options to Improve SATA Hard Drive Performance

        Objectively speaking, compared with other components such as CPU and memory, hard disk is one of the slowest development components in PC. In many cases, poor system performance is often subject to the bottleneck of hard disk performance. However, with the increasing popularity of SATA hard drive applications, this dilemma has improved slightly. Compared to traditional IDE hard drives, SATA drives are not only easier to connect, install, but also provide better performance. Windows Vista supports SATA hard drives well, and it also provides a way to further improve hard drive performance by enabling advanced performance options. Here are some tips for "squeezing out" the performance benefits of SATA hard drives in Windows Vista. 1. Log in to Windows Vista as an administrator account. 2. Open Device Manager. This can be done in a variety of ways, such as right-clicking the "Computer" icon on the desktop, selecting "Properties", and then on the left task panel. See the "Device Manager" link; you can also find the Device Manager in Control Panel, System and Maintenance, and more. 3. Locate the hard disk used by the system in the device manager. 4. Double-click or right-click the device to select the property. 5. Browse to the Policy page and check the Enable Advanced Performance option. It should be noted that This item is optional only when using a SATA hard disk. If an IDE hard disk is used, this item cannot be selected. In addition, as stated in the figure, to enable this setting, you need to ensure that the system does not have the risk of power failure, such as using UPS, otherwise there is a risk of data loss. - For notebook users, this is not a big problem, after all, there is a battery to protect. 6. Exit the device manager. In this way, combined with the disk write cache, the "Advanced Performance" item can improve the overall performance of Windows Vista to a certain extent.