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Started 2 years ago by chooky
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chooky
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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.

Posted 2 years ago #
byteboss
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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).

Posted 2 years ago #
PangOS
Beta Veteran

Oops, had the usb disabled in eBoostr with those numbers. Let me retest.
#1
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Cached access with the usb eBoostr (4GB) ReadyBoost (10GB) 92.62 MB/sec
Ratio 3.43.
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#2
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-- 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
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#3
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-- 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
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#4
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-- 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
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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...

Posted 2 years ago #
Andrey Zarudnev
eBoostr Team

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.

Posted 2 years ago #
Zeioth
Member

Thankyou for your answer Andrey, if i wait before to use speed test. I have 5.2 ratio for ram, regardless of the amount.

Posted 2 years ago #
chooky
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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 http://www.disktrix.com/ 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 http://www.passmark.com/products/apptimer.htm 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!

Posted 2 years ago #
PangOS
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PangOS wrote:

#4
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-- 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
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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...

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