Vista - Hard drive speed boosts

Hi Qu0ll,

You may need to do it in your Raid card's settings, or from the BIOS if it's an integrated Raid. What is your Raid's model?

Hope this helps,
Shawn

It's an Adaptec 2230SLP. The only options available are to turn on the write cache in the RAID BIOS which hasn't helped much with performance. In fact I am very disappointed with the performance of the array given that the disks are 15K RPM and supposedly the fastest available. If I had my choice over again I would stick with SATA II drives in a RAID-10 configuration.

-Q

Quoll,

Your Raid card says it supports Raid 10 to.

Do you have the latest drivers for it?

Check here: http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/support/raid/scsi_raid/ASR-2230S/

Just click on you Vista version (32/64) under Windows.

I'll keep digging,
Shawn

P.S. Check for newer motherboard BIOS to.

brink,

I see there's a new driver just released. I tried to install it and I thought I had succeeded (the Driver tab said Adaptec and a recent date) but since rebooting the driver has reverted to a Microsoft driver dated August 2006. Now, it won't let me install the Adaptec driver saying that the folder doesn't contain a valid x64 driver (even though I used the same folder before).

What do I have to do to get the Adaptec driver installed?

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-Q
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Qu0ll,

Try doing it manually:
1. Go into Device Manager and click on you RAID device.
2. Click Update Driver
3. Click Browse my computer for driver software.
4. Click Browse, and direct it to where the downloaded driver was installed. (C:\adaptec\driver) I believe.
5. Click Next.

And go from there.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Updated,
Shawn

I cant get this to work.
When I check the:
Enable write caching on disk
and
Enable advance performance
and click ok, and open the window again they aren't marked any more.

Any ideas?

Anyway, thanks for a great list of tutorials to speed up vista.

Welcome to the forum Syklitengutt,

I hope the rest of the list will help you better. Let's see if we can resolve this one issue. First, I have a few questions to help determine what the problem may be.

What type of hard drive do you have? (EX: ATA or SATA)

How do you have it configured? (EX: RAID, USB, Partitioned, etc)

What is the brand and model of the hard drive?

Shawn

Tnx for that.
Lets see.
Lets try to answer your questions.
Under storage in lavasys, and under storage control, ata, device type, I find the disks
to be SATA, disk one is partitioned into C:Vista and Fata
and disk 2 is D:.
The name of the disks is Disk nr 1 and 2 - TOSHIBA MK1637GSX (149 Gb)
same for the 2. one.

This is in a laptop, Toshiba Satellite X200 if this helps.

Hope this helps.

Chris

Chris,

From the information you gave me, it looks good. This option would not be available if the drives where in RAID. It is not recommended to use the Enable Advanced Performance for a laptop. If the laptop's batteries die on you, you could lose the data that is temporarily stored on the drive's cache file. A non laptop has less chance if losing power.

From what I seen from searching the net for similar problems, the problem may be with needing newer BIOS or Chipset drivers for your motherboard.

Hope this helps,
Shawn