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   chooky
   Beta Veteran

   A popular Windows tweak is to disable the NTFS Last Access Time Stamp http://www.pctools.com/guides/registry/detail/50/
   Does eBoostr rely on this information in any way shape or form? Should it be enabled if using eBoostr?

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   byteboss
   Member

   Unfortunately, disabling the NTFS Last Access Time Stamp can have negative consequences (depending on the Defragger you use). Some Defragmentation Utilities offer the option to move the most recently accessed files to the faster outer tracks of the hard drive. Disabling the Time Stamp would make this handy feature of Defraggers less effective.
   People might want to consider this if they use a Defrag Mode that relies on the Time Stamp.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   chooky
   Beta Veteran

   I used to have it enabled for that reason. Since I got my SSD's getting most used files to the outer most tracks of the disk is no longer required so I switched it off for the small performance gain. If it is used by eBoostr I will turn it back on again.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   byteboss
   Member

   chooky wrote:
   I used to have it enabled for that reason. Since I got my SSD's getting most used files to the outer most tracks of the disk is no longer required so I switched it off for the small performance gain. If it is used by eBoostr I will turn it back on again.

   Chooky, just curious how the performance of your SSD's compares to that of USB Flash Drives. Seems like eBoostr wouldn't benefit you much unless you're using system memory for the eBoostr Cache. Just curious as I've had no experience with SSDs.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   chooky
   Beta Veteran

   This is my 2x 30GB Vertex RAID 0 its 4K reads are much faster than a USB drive. This is why a USB cache actually slows down a PC with SSD storage.

   

   This is my USB an AData My Flash PD1. From the manual it says it is
   Date transfer rate up to 19MB/s for Read, 14MB/s

   

   Seey full post here http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/add-readwrite-speed-test-for-usb-flash-drives-they-vary-widely-in-performance

   Posted 2 years ago #
6. 

   Andrey Zarudnev
   eBoostr Team

   eBoostr does not rely on last access time stamp. You can safely turn it off.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   mradr
   Member

   Why would you want to turn it off anyways? I don't see the point in turning it off..?

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   chooky
   Beta Veteran

   If nothing is using it why have it on. Turning it off is just one less thing the OS has to do a thousand times a day. It only gives a tiny performance improvement imo.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   mradr
   Member

   I guess, I don't thnik you would get any performence boost from it at all on a HDD. Only on SSD (flash base) due to their limited write life.

   Posted 2 years ago #

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