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eBoostr Beta Program Forum » Tag: ssd - Recent Posts http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/tags/ssd Beta Testers Forum en-US Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:25:18 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/search.php wwjd0691 on "eBoostr can be used instead of RAM disk for SSD?" http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-can-be-used-instead-of-ram-disk-for-ssd#post-1221 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:59:32 +0000 wwjd0691 1221@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ I am using a SSD for one of my laptops. It is said that using RAM disk for temporary files of system and internet browser is recommendable to minimize wear of SSD. Do you guys think eBoostr with system memory can do the same work as RAM disk dose? I think if eBoostr causes less hard drive access, it might substitute RAM disk for a system with SSD. Twist on "Eboostr with Netbook and SSD" http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-with-netbook-and-ssd#post-1151 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:35:58 +0000 Twist 1151@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ I read a bit in this forum but it seems you do not have many netbook users besides me. The Laptop I write this on is an MSI Wind U100 netbook Following Config: 2GB Ram Intel Atom n270 1.6gh Intel Postvill G2 40GB SSD with newest Firmware (Trim support) Win7 Ultimate 32bit 512mb Ram Cache Eboostr 200mb dataram Ramdisk used for temp,tmp,ie cache, firefox cache. Average system speedup is reported as 46% I mostly use this netbook for Firefox, Thebat, Adobe Lightroom (only if I am on Holidays) and some java apps. the look an feel of the system is very pleasing. And I think it helped the battery runtime a bit. I am over 8 hours on my 9cell with wlan and bluetooth. I did try ebooster and ramdisk on my main system too....but it isn't as noticeable. Seems like Win7 is using the 8gb ram and raid0 raptor harddisks with the 4gb usb cache allready very effectively. If you want me to run some tests, even some time consuming ones, tell me which and I will do it.....just give me a full-licence ;-) PangOS on "eboostr and Superfetch" http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch/page/2#post-1091 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:19:33 +0000 PangOS 1091@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <blockquote><cite>PangOS <a href="http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch/page/2#post-312">wrote</a>:</cite> #4 *************************************************************** -- Assigned 2048MB RAM Cache in eBoostr -- Disabled USB for eBoostr -- USB & SD ReadyBoost (10GB)-- Direct: 30.05 MB/sec Cached: 353.45 MB/sec Ratio: 11.75 --------------------------------------------------------------- </blockquote> Still tinkering, Bought an upgrade cpu for my box -Phenom II x4 945 3.0GHz- Results of testing. -- Assigned 1024MB RAM Cache in eBoostr -- Disabled USB for eBoostr -- USB & SD ReadyBoost (10GB)-- Direct: 39.05 MB/sec Cached: 784.48 MB/sec Ratio: 20.09 Wow!! Considerable increase in cached access. Hmmm, I guess thats what faster CPUs do :p Happy testing guys... Art on "Ok to let SuperSpeed RamDisk and eBoostr each use part of unmanaged RAM?" http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/ok-to-let-superspeed-ramdisk-and-eboostr-each-use-part-of-unmanaged-ram#post-686 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:32:03 +0000 Art 686@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ Leute! eBoostr whit a new hd ssd in an old an7 (fsb 333, qsoft ramdrive, xpsp3...) <img src="http://www.awmueller.com/eb_ssd.gif"> byteboss on "Ok to let SuperSpeed RamDisk and eBoostr each use part of unmanaged RAM?" http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/ok-to-let-superspeed-ramdisk-and-eboostr-each-use-part-of-unmanaged-ram#post-670 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:07:00 +0000 byteboss 670@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ pajenn, I'm running a 256 MB SuperSpeed ramdisk on one of my machines with eBoostr installed and I've not noticed any problems at all. I am running Windows XP Pro SP3 on that machine though, so I can't speak for Windows 7 or Vista. Art on "Ok to let SuperSpeed RamDisk and eBoostr each use part of unmanaged RAM?" http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/ok-to-let-superspeed-ramdisk-and-eboostr-each-use-part-of-unmanaged-ram#post-669 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:43:26 +0000 Art 669@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ >“… determine the performace gain, if any.” I’m using ramdrive and eBoostr and is difficult determine the real gain, the system is quicker and stable. In a typical workday I use around 10 applications (corel, dream, photoshop, firefox…). > Question: Should I remove the SuperSpeed ramdisk dedicated to eBooster, and then let eBoostr rebuild its cache on the subsequently available unmanaged ram? Yes. >Would that provide any benefit over my current setup? (fwiw, I do not have SuuperSpeed set to save the ram image at shutdown, although I did save it after eBoostr first built the cache on it). I save the ram image once a week, in good times once a month !! If possible try to set the environment (temp folders) to ram disk. My firefox cache is in ramdisk too!! Before I open some useful sites to firefox cache it and then I save the image. Ready, every boot the firefox open whit a clean and quick cache (firefox application in eBoostr and firefox cache files in ramdrive!!). > Concerns: I assume SuperSpeed and eBoostr … In my system the ramdrive and eBoostr work fine. I tried to mount Eboostr in the ramdrive, but the speed was slight better whit Eboostr managing direct the system memory. mradr on "Ok to let SuperSpeed RamDisk and eBoostr each use part of unmanaged RAM?" http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/ok-to-let-superspeed-ramdisk-and-eboostr-each-use-part-of-unmanaged-ram#post-659 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:33:38 +0000 mradr 659@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ Some ramdisk drivers do have problems running side by side with eboostr. This is due to them fighting for the free space they think is there, so yes your right. One way around it is to startup eboostr by hand instead, or if you can with your SupoerSpeed, start it up by hand to give it time between each other. This usally works but sometimes doesn't and you'll have to just give up one or the other... or just find another ramdrive driver. Gavotte_RAMDisk_1.0.4096.5_200811130 <-The one I use... if you can get it to work. I would just let eboostr do its thing with out help, give it the 1GB of the ram thats not being used by the system. Ram faster then USB so more you give it there the better/faster it is. Eboostr saves it own image to the hard drive, so that way when you restart its saved and can be put back into ram faster. pajenn on "Ok to let SuperSpeed RamDisk and eBoostr each use part of unmanaged RAM?" http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/ok-to-let-superspeed-ramdisk-and-eboostr-each-use-part-of-unmanaged-ram#post-658 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:04:07 +0000 pajenn 658@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ Current setup: I have a laptop with 4 GB of ram, of which 32-bit Windows XP can only manage 3 GB. I split the remaining gig into two 512 MB ramdisks using SuperSpeed (I had to enable PAE mode for it). When I heard about eBoostr, I decided to dedicate one of the RAM drives to it, plus another 512 MB of Windows managed memory, plus a 1 GB Kingston USB flash drive (FAT32). That's working fine -- no problems, but I have yet to determine the performace gain, if any. Question: Should I remove the SuperSpeed ramdisk dedicated to eBooster, and then let eBoostr rebuild its cache on the subsequently available unmanaged ram? Would that provide any benefit over my current setup? (fwiw, I do not have SuuperSpeed set to save the ram image at shutdown, although I did save it after eBoostr first built the cache on it). Concerns: I assume SuperSpeed and eBoostr both grab part of the unmanaged RAM at each Windows start-up if set to use it, and they load previously saved images or formats onto that ram. Any reason to suspect a conflict between them? If RAM is divided into permanent sectors or similar the way hard drives are, I'd expect SuperSpeed and eBoostr to both grab separate, pre-allocated sectors of it (so no conflict), but if they just search for the first available 512 MB of unmanaged RAM and then each try to use it, then I guess that could be a problem... chooky on "eboostr and Superfetch" http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch/page/2#post-320 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:30:30 +0000 chooky 320@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ Defragmenting HDD's does improve performance. Some defragmenters are better than others. Unfortunately I have never found a good free one. After trying every one available I recommend Disktix products <a href="http://www.disktrix.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.disktrix.com/</a> I own the Ultimate Defrag but also recommend Defrag Express for the budget conscious. Give them a 2 week trial for free and you will see a difference. The first defrag will take a long time. The defragger should then be scheduled to run whenever the PC is idle. PangOS, interesting results! I think the only way to test it properly is with Apptimer <a href="http://www.passmark.com/products/apptimer.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.passmark.com/products/apptimer.htm</a> Make sure to reboot between tests of the same application, it is the first load time after reboot that eBoostr affects the most. Just use a couple of applications such as MS Word or MS Excel. You also have to make sure the application you are testing are cached nearly 100% by checking in the eBoostr Cache Statistics program. I am fairly sure eBoostr does not cache documents. I have read that they made a few improvements to readyboost and superfetch in Windows 7 but I don't think they work anywhere near as well as eBoostr! Zeioth on "eboostr and Superfetch" http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch/page/2#post-316 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:04:53 +0000 Zeioth 316@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ Thankyou for your answer Andrey, if i wait before to use speed test. I have 5.2 ratio for ram, regardless of the amount. Andrey Zarudnev on "eboostr and Superfetch" http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch/page/2#post-313 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:45:57 +0000 Andrey Zarudnev 313@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ About the RAM cache low ratios issues. Please note, that if you disable and then enable it (or resize)--it needs some time to be actually loaded, so please wait for the hard disk activity to stop and only then run the speed check. PangOS on "eboostr and Superfetch" http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch/page/2#post-312 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:34:39 +0000 PangOS 312@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ Oops, had the usb disabled in eBoostr with those numbers. Let me retest. #1 *************************************************************** Cached access with the usb eBoostr (4GB) ReadyBoost (10GB) 92.62 MB/sec Ratio 3.43. --------------------------------------------------------------- #2 *************************************************************** -- Assigned 2048MB RAM Cache in eBoostr -- Disabled USB for eBoostr -- Disabled ReadyBoost -- Direct: 15.11 MB/sec Cached: 31.93 MB/sec Ratio: 2.11 --------------------------------------------------------------- #3 *************************************************************** -- Assigned 2048MB RAM Cache in eBoostr -- USB enabled eBoostr (4GB) -- Disabled ReadyBoost -- Direct: 14.86 MB/sec Cached: 26.26 MB/sec Ratio: 1.77 --------------------------------------------------------------- #4 *************************************************************** -- Assigned 2048MB RAM Cache in eBoostr -- Disabled USB for eBoostr -- USB & SD ReadyBoost (10GB)-- Direct: 30.05 MB/sec Cached: 353.45 MB/sec Ratio: 11.75 --------------------------------------------------------------- So according to this, ReadyBoost increased Direct access x2 and Cached access exponentially. (Should I trust this?) Another question is raised in my mind... (Still awaiting the answer on fragmentation): This cached acceleration only serves to *launch* Applications faster? It should also mean applications can open documents faster? Writes to disk remain the same? This may not serve any real purpose for users that launch a set of apps and leave them running, never really launching other apps or relaunching the ones that they already have open. This reminds me of my first experience with Vista ReadyBoost - while playing a game it was very jerky and sometimes unresponsive -. I turned my back on ReadyBoost, however Win7 ReadyBoost did not exhibit this same behaviour, It worked well. So I will continue using it combined with eBoostr. Happy testing guys... byteboss on "eboostr and Superfetch" http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch/page/2#post-310 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:05:09 +0000 byteboss 310@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ On Defragmentation: You may not notice any dramatic effects in performance after defragging, but still there are benfits in doing so. It's a well know fact that heat shortens the life of hard drives (sometimes considerably). If file fragments aren't scattered all over the hard drive, the hard drive doesn't have to work as hard, which means it should run a little cooler. This is especially important for hard drives that tend to run a little on the hot side (or near the maximum operating temperature recommended by it's manufacturer). chooky on "eboostr and Superfetch" http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch/page/2#post-308 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:12:45 +0000 chooky 308@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ Thanks for all the info PangOS! Looking forward to see how you go with the 4GB cache! That is a very good ratio considering you have a USB cache in the mix. The more PC's I try eBoostr on the less faith I have in the Ratio being a good indicator of anything. Today I was at a friends place working on his PC's, he has an old Dell notebook running XP and a new Dell Vostro 200 running Vista. He wanted to upgrade them so we replaced the notebook HDD with a Seagate MOMENTUS 7200.4 500GB SATA 2.5 7200rpm 16MB and the 1GB of memory with Corsair 2GB Kit(2x1G) PC5300 667MHz DDR2 SODIMM. I also installed eBoostr 4 and set up a 800mb RAM cache. The speed test gave a ratio of 19! On the desktop PC we replaced the 1GB of 667Mhz RAM with Kingston DDR2 4(2x2G)PC6400 800Mhz - KVR800D2N5K2/4G. I installed eBoostr 4 and setup a 2GB RAM cache and a 1.5GB USB cache this ratio was 2.1. I tested both C: drives with Crystal diskmark and the notebook HDD was actually faster. The performance difference in both machines was astounding the old notebook was performing much the same as the new desktop! What was even more amazing was that both cheap, low specification, not O/C'ed machines were opening Office apps nearly as fast as my expensive, high specification, O/C'ed beast with SSD's in RAID zero. PangOS on "eboostr and Superfetch" http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch#post-301 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:45:31 +0000 PangOS 301@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <blockquote><cite>chooky <a href="http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch#post-297">wrote</a>:</cite> With 8GB of RAM I think your best option would be to use a 4GB RAM cache and nothing else. You may even benefit from turning off superfetch and readyboost. Even Microsoft admit that Readyboost does not do much if you have ample memory. Can you post up some other specs? HDD make and model, CPU, mobo? </blockquote> OK, Full Specs System is O/C'ed ASUS M3A78 M/B AMD Phenom 8450 Triple Core @ 2.3MHz 8GB DDR2 800 RAM @ 876MHz HDDs Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB SATA II 300MB/s 32MB Cache, Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA II 300MB/s 32MB Cache , Hitachi 500GB PATA 133MB/s 8MB Cache, Western Digital Caviar Blue 16MB Cache 250GB SATA Hitachi IDE on USB Enclosure 133MB/s 16MB Cache, Flash *********************************** Sandisk Cruzer 8GB Kingston Data Traveler 2.0 4GB Sandisk SD 16GB Current config and access times. *********************************** 1GB RAM (eBoostr) 4GB Sandisk USB (eBoostr) 8GB Sandisk SD (ReadyBoost) 2GB Kingston (ReadyBoost) No pagefile Direct access 25.92 MB/sec Cached access 325.07 MB/sec Ratio 12.54 *********************************** I have had the pagefile totally disabled. Using a 4GB RAM cache for eBoostr sounds scary due to my usual comfort of having "free" RAM. But I will try it out. I see it was mentioned by someone, but it was on my mind to ask: As we are constantly looking for more acceleration and performance gains, does fragmentation play a part? Personally I have never noticed any differences in speed after defragmentation and honestly believe that the benefit only applies to persons doing recordings and so on. Would like to know what the dev team has to say about this. Well, back to testing... chooky on "eboostr and Superfetch" http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch#post-298 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:26:57 +0000 chooky 298@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ Zeioth, How much total memory do you have? Are you only using a RAM cache? chooky on "eboostr and Superfetch" http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch#post-297 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:23:41 +0000 chooky 297@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <blockquote><cite>PangOS <a href="http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch#post-293">wrote</a>:</cite> Sorry I forgot to mention. I have 1024 RAM assigned to eBoostr. Win7 x64 8GB RAM. It all seems alot quicker if I use eBoostr to manage a RAM cache and Readyboost for flash devices. </blockquote> With 8GB of RAM I think your best option would be to use a 4GB RAM cache and nothing else. You may even benefit from turning off superfetch and readyboost. Even Microsoft admit that Readyboost does not do much if you have ample memory. Can you post up some other specs? HDD make and model, CPU, mobo? Zeioth on "eboostr and Superfetch" http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch#post-296 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:09:56 +0000 Zeioth 296@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ Update: Also with 512mb ram i have ratio 1,5 (extremely low). Sorry about double post. Zeioth on "eboostr and Superfetch" http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch#post-295 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:07:56 +0000 Zeioth 295@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ Thanks guys, specially sst for your complete description. It's completely true, with 2 gb ram i have ratio 4, with ram 1 gb i have ratio 7.4. seems to be a perfect amount. Now i'll do some tests using apptimer. sst on "eboostr and Superfetch" http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch#post-294 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:40:44 +0000 sst 294@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ Hi, ... This is my speed test: On a test Computer = XP SP3 x32, DDR-1, 3 Gig Ram. --------------------------- eBoostr : Control Panel --------------------------- 1024 Meg. Ram Cache ------------------- Inside Windows XP, 1) I have deactivated the option, to show in color compressed files and directory. 2) It have a NTFS compressed HardDrive. 3) PageFile completly deactivated. 4) 3 * 400 mhz ddr-1, clocked to 333 mhz. 5) The HardDrive is defragmented. 6) It use 1 gig of Ram to Ram EBoostr Cache, if i select 2 Gig, inside EBoostr it's slower. --- It seem faster inside Windows XP to use EBoostr. It can be, because Windows XP dont have superfetch. --- An other test = I will try on my main computer Windows 7, to disable superfetch and readyboot and readyboost. And only use EBoostr, and check if it's faster to disable or not. --- I will test with an other HardDisk, on the test computer that have Windows XP, this HardDisk will contain Vista and Windows 7. --- ---------------------- Sylvain St-Amand (sst) PangOS on "eboostr and Superfetch" http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch#post-293 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:39:10 +0000 PangOS 293@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ Sorry I forgot to mention. I have 1024 RAM assigned to eBoostr. Win7 x64 8GB RAM. It all seems alot quicker if I use eBoostr to manage a RAM cache and Readyboost for flash devices. chooky on "eboostr and Superfetch" http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch#post-292 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:46:36 +0000 chooky 292@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <blockquote><cite>PangOS <a href="http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch#post-289">wrote</a>:</cite> Jumping into this thread, maybe I should have started a new one? Still tweaking, testing, experimenting... As I stated in another thread, assigning a flash device to readyboost increases eboostr's read rates and ratios on my system. I *had* three flash devices being used by readyboost 2 USB sticks and an SD Memcard. I reassigned the fastest of the three devices (8GB Sandisk Cruzer USB Stick) to eboostr (4GB). I ended up being sorta surprised and shocked to find that the ratio/read times dropped and the system started to appear slower on launching programs (It was very hard for me to notice any difference before, with or without the accelerators). Should I give it some time before trying another configuration? Or should I start over? </blockquote> Are you using a RAM cache? If so how big? How much total memory do you have? I think you would have to do some methodical testing to see what is going to give you the best performance on your system. As a general rule I have found the more you cache on slower media USB,SD,HDD the slower your performance. Your system will have an optimum RAM cache size depending on the amount of memory you have and the size and number of programs you run. Making a larger ram cache will just cause you to start using the pagefile more when your programs are using more memory. chooky on "eboostr and Superfetch" http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch#post-291 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:32:01 +0000 chooky 291@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <blockquote><cite>Zeioth <a href="http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch#post-288">wrote</a>:</cite> Ratio 7 with DDR1, how it's possible? i have DDR3 1600 dual channel & 3 GB for eboost, and: my ratio is 4.31 direct access 18 Cache enabled access speed 80 tips? </blockquote> How much total memory do you have? Are you only using a RAM cache? PangOS on "eboostr and Superfetch" http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch#post-289 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:35:08 +0000 PangOS 289@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ Jumping into this thread, maybe I should have started a new one? Still tweaking, testing, experimenting... As I stated in another thread, assigning a flash device to readyboost increases eboostr's read rates and ratios on my system. I *had* three flash devices being used by readyboost 2 USB sticks and an SD Memcard. I reassigned the fastest of the three devices (8GB Sandisk Cruzer USB Stick) to eboostr (4GB). I ended up being sorta surprised and shocked to find that the ratio/read times dropped and the system started to appear slower on launching programs (It was very hard for me to notice any difference before, with or without the accelerators). Should I give it some time before trying another configuration? Or should I start over? Zeioth on "eboostr and Superfetch" http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch#post-288 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:57:42 +0000 Zeioth 288@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ Ratio 7 with DDR1, how it's possible? i have DDR3 1600 dual channel & 3 GB for eboost, and: my ratio is 4.31 direct access 18 Cache enabled access speed 80 tips? chooky on "eboostr and Superfetch" http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch#post-281 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:52:45 +0000 chooky 281@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ With a ratio of 7 you would be experiencing a wonderful improvement with eBoostr! sst on "eboostr and Superfetch" http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch#post-279 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:25:52 +0000 sst 279@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ Hi, ... This is my speed test: On a test Computer = XP SP3 x32, DDR-1 3 Gig Ram. --------------------------- eBoostr : Control Panel --------------------------- 1024 Meg. Ram Cache ------------------- Direct access speed: 28.049955 MB/s Cache enabled access speed: 198.014755 MB/s Ratio: 7.059361 ---------------------- Sylvain St-Amand (sst) chooky on "eboostr and Superfetch" http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch#post-278 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:28:00 +0000 chooky 278@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ This is my speed test: --------------------------- eBoostr : Control Panel --------------------------- Direct access speed: 228.011597 MB/s Cache enabled access speed: 892.565735 MB/s Ratio: 3.914563 Please note that my system is heavily overclocked and running 2 30GB Vertex SSD's in RAID 0. An SSD is a very nice upgrade to any PC. Zeioth on "eboostr and Superfetch" http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch#post-275 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:42:30 +0000 Zeioth 275@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ A SSD Disc seems to be a good choice, chooky, can you tell me please what ratio have your SSD in eboost? i'd like to know the performance before to buy. Thank you. chooky on "eboostr and Superfetch" http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch#post-264 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:26:27 +0000 chooky 264@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ The last tag should be [/IMG] PangOS I think it is important to use a pagefile. It should be on your fastest storage. On a PC with 4GB of RAM or more I use a fixed pagefile of 1 or 2 GB. On a low spec PC I just leave it as windows managed. You may be able to run without one and never see any problems but Windows was designed to use it.