Window Vista has built in support for SATA and external drives, but they seem to be slow because the advanced write cache features aren’t automatically activated. With just few steps you can enable them and get a much faster response.

First you need to go to the Device Manager which you can go directly by just typing device in the start menu search box or just type in devmgmt.msc in command line.

Now open the Disk drives section and right click on your hard drive. Now click on the Policies tab and you’ll find this dialog box:

                        

You would know how fast the graphics and the processor department is advancing, with new improved fabrication technologies, chip manufacturer’s are able to fit in more transistors with that delivering better performance to power consumption ratio. Even RAM sticks are damn fast then their predecessors. But one department has been always a little tad slow compared to the other systems, its the hard drives. Even if you have a monster of a system the HD’s are not fast enough compared to CPU’s or RAM, theirs always that ting of slowness.