This benchmark shows perfonmance decrease with AAM turned on. Noise reduction is significant (not measured).
Disk used: Western Digital Caviar 250GB.
OS: Windows Vista SP1 x64.
Software: HD Tune
AAM configuration tool: HDDScan


Install this: http://www.citadel.co.nr/readydriverplus/
Other solutions are useless
My conclusion is that ReadyDriverPlus v1.1 gets stuck after changing anything in yout boot configuration. Even if you change “Time to display list of operating systems”. The result will be only blinking cursor and Vista will not boot (unless you manually select Vista->F8->Bypass Driver Signing Enforcement). You just need do uninstall and then install ReadyDriverPlus again.
Edit: Found better solution!!! See: this post.
Ukoliko ste uspeli da zaradite dinamički ban na jednom od domaćih servera, možete ga lako i ukloniti. U .\cstrike\config direktorijumu pronađite fajl config.cfg. Ključ pod kojim je dodat “ban” je setinfo. Primer ovog unosa je:
setinfo “_swpow” “495″
Brisanjem ove linije, više nećete imati ban. Možda bi vam jednostavnija varijanta bila da napravite backup ovog fajla, tako da ako vam se desi da dobijete ban, samo prekopirate backup preko aktuelnog fajla u CSu.
gl&hf
1. Open command prompt (Win+R, then type “cmd” or just search “cmd”).
2. Type “bcdedit”. You will get a list of all items in boot menu.
3. Remember “identifier” field of the entry (system) that you want to remove.
For example: {cbd971bf-b7b8-4885-951a-fa03044f5d71}
4. The following command deletes the specified operating system entry from the
store and removes the entry from the display order:
bcdedit /delete {cbd971bf-b7b8-4885-951a-fa03044f5d71}
The following command deletes the specified operating system entry from the
store without removing the entry from the display order:
bcdedit /delete {cbd971bf-b7b8-4885-951a-fa03044f5d71} /nocleanup
5. After deletion, it there is only 1 entry left, boot menu will not be shown on next boot.