How to improve performances on a freshly installed hard disk on my iMac

Hi everybody, sorry for the quite long subject!
I own a mid 2007 20" iMac which originally came with a 320 Gb hard drive.
I recently decided to upgrade the machine to a beefier hard disk, so I replaced the original one with a WD Caviar Black 1 Tb drive.
It's a SATA 6 Gb/sec that sports 7200 rpm and a 64 Mb cache.
Now I am wondering if there is any way to fine tune the hard disk performance to take benefit from its better performance features.
In other words: do you think the drive itself (with its cache, etc.) will behave at its best within my iMac.
For your convenience, here's the system information page for the SATA connection (although the parameters name are in italian, it should be easy to understand what they are for):
Thanks everybody in advance!
Giovanni

Hi Giovanni,
It should be fine as is, not much you can do besides adding an SSD & maybe more RAM.

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