One way your PC speeds up your Zip, Jaz, and other removable drives is by storing frequently accessed data in a high-speed cache. It also writes the same data to disk. You may be able to improve your drive's performance by eliminating data writes to the disk. Right-click My Computer and select PropertiesòPerformanceòFile SystemòRemovable Drives. To keep the PC from double-writing the data, check Enable write-behind caching on all removable disk drives. Every little performance tweak helps.

By Kirk Steers