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  • Date Created
    Monday, November 15, 2010
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    Tuesday, November 16, 2010
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  • Short Desc
    If your ATA IDE, USB or SATA drive is not performing at its optimal level, then a performance change is needed.
  • Details
    To get the best performance from your added hard drives (This includes ATA IDE, USB and SATA drives that you add to your system after the initial hard drive that came with your computer) and to make the added drive act like your main hard drive as in for speed and performance. Perform the following actions.
  • Recreate Issue
    When you connect a new hard drive to your system for added storage, you might notice that it is not as fast as your original hard drive that came with your computer.
    This is by default in Windows.
  • Resolve Issue
    To make your newly installed USB Hard Drive or SATA Hard Drive perform at it optimal level of performance, perform the following actions.

    (Windows XP)
    Open My Computer
    Right click on your hard drive (does not matter which drive you choose here)
    Click on Properties
    Click on the Hardware tab

    From the All disk drives: section
    Select the ATA IDE, USB or SATA drive
    Click Properties

    From the Properties Dialog
    Click Policies
    Then choose: Optimize for performance
    Click OK

    The system may ask you to restart the system, at this time save all your work and choose yes.

    (Windows 7) (This should work for Windows Vista as well)
    Open Computer
    Right click on the added hard drive.
    Click on Properties
    Then click on Hardware
    Choose the drive that you want to work with
    Click Properties

    When the properties dialog appears
    Click Change Settings
    Click Policies

    Check Enable write caching on the device

    In most cases, the drive should already be set to this under Windows 7 unless you are still running the older Beta versions of Windows 7, in that case then you will have the following options which differ from the most recent release of Windows 7
    Quick removal (default)
    better performance

    Windows XP does not have this option selected for added drives.
    Windows Vista will most likely not have it selected either.

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