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   laferrierejc
   Member

   This is a neat option.

   Say I have a laptop
   I'm looking for a SSD to install.
   There small and expensive.
   So I want to keep my old SATA HD that's 100GB.

   So I buy a compactflash 48GB for about 150.
   I put my windows files and documents on this drive (I split the partitions and map the folders to the appropriate partitions).

   Then have my program files on the old sata.

   Now there should be a way to setup eboostr to cache my Program Files (the sata) drive to the expresscard ssd even tho I have system files on the SSD.

   What I'm thinking (I haven't tried it yet, but I'm thinking it's not going to let me) is Eboostr isn't going to differentiate what files are on what drive, and secondly I don't think it's going to let me cache to the ssd if I have system files on it.

   Another third option was to abandon caching the program files to the ssd, and just go with a flash drive, and cache the program files to the flash drive.

   This last option I think is more realistic. As the program doesn't differentiate what drives I can eboost, it probably determines which drives are choking and which need help.

   Again I haven't tried, I am going to soon. Probably by this weekend when I get the SSD.

   Posted 5 months ago #
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   laferrierejc
   Member

   I think I figured out my own solution. With multiple hard drives, and in my case, having the program files mapped to an actual hard disk vs ssd, you could just exclude all other drives if they were being cached.

   Posted 5 months ago #
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   laferrierejc
   Member

   Well, I got my new hard drive. Unfortunately it wouldn't give me DMA access in xp 64, so I'm forced to load Windows 7 to access the DMA speeds of the SSD. Which is fine, I just am limited to 3.25GB of ram (E1705/XPS m1710 limitation) because of hardware (not OS) and I would have preferred XP vs Win7 with such a limition. Either way, I was going to install windows onto the SSD, but I'm not sure if that's going to work. Will keep you informed. So far windows says it can't boot from the SSD (I was thinking about just manually moving the files over, but I don't know if that will work either. I think I need a bootloader type program).

   Posted 5 months ago #
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   Doug
   Beta Veteran

   I'm trying a similar configuration on my IBM T60p. I use a standard hard drive for Windows, and an ultrafast 48GB expresscard SSD for eBoostr. Users of the SSD report that a Mac will boot from it, but apparently Windows doesn't, regardless of version. It might be a chipset limitation. My IBM uses an Intel 945 chipset, and like your computer, is hardware limited to 3GB RAM.

   My experience is that eBoost doesn't begin to use the storage capacity of the SSD.

   Posted 5 months ago #

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