Enable SATA Support in Vista
If your PC is less than a year old there’s a fair chance it has SATA (Serial ATA) hard drives, which basically means they’re a bit faster than the old PATA (Parallel ATA) or IDE drives, that used those big clumsy ribbon cables. Anyway, Windows Vista has built-in support for SATA drives but it’s not enabled by default so you could be missing out on a small performance gain.
To put that right go to Device Manager and there’s a couple of quick ways to do that, either right-click Computer on the Start menu and select Manage and double click Device Manager, or use the keyboard shortcut Winkey + Break and click the Device Manager link (you could also type ‘Device’ into the Search box). Double click ‘Disk Drives’, right click on your primary drive, select Properties then the Policies tab. All you have to do now is check the item ‘Enable advanced performance’, click OK and it’s done.
Tags: advanced_performance, device_manager, parallel_ata, pata, Performance, performance_gain, ribbon_cables, sata, serial_ata_hard_drives, Windows, windows vista
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David T on 13 Jul 2007 at 7:50 pm #
Checked it out but the option is a subset of write-caching… you DONT want to use this unless you have backup power such as a notebook battery or UPS.
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