Increase Vista External Hard Disk Performance

The performance of vista external hard drive does not fast like Vista internal hard drive operates. This is mainly because vista already disable disk caching features on external hard drive which vista user can safely remove the external hard drive on anytime without any system interruption. Disable disk caching on vista external hard disk is a great feature for USB memory drives to avoid any interrupt so that the drive can be frequently inserted and removed from your computer.

However, if you have a large external hard drive that never disconnected from your computer, this disk caching feature can decrease performance of your external disk.

Step to enable disk caching features on your vista external hard drive :

1. Click start then right click on Computer and select Manage
2. Click on Device Manager on the side menu
3. Expand the Disk drives branch and locate your external drive from the list
4. Right click on the drive and select Properties
5. On the Policies tab select Optimize for performance
6. Check the boxes titled “Enable write caching on the disk” and “Enable advanced performance as shown below
   
7. Click the OK button and reboot for the settings to take effect