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   genusis
   Member

   Well since Hard drives and Flash drives are slower there is a way to speed it up. the way you ask Well by a Persistent Connection between Ebooster and The Drive.

   When you and your system are not doing anything the disk Sometimes Stops and because of this stop When You begin to do something again The hard disk has to speed back up taking more time. In the Process even when running a Program Ebooster is not Always Reading the cache data Especially when The program is started all the way.

   Like for Example you want to listen to a song you click the song Ebooster search's Its cache then Stops and the song begins to Play, Or opening Wordpad or another Word processing program Ebooster stops when you are typing.

   Well in Order to speed This Process up i would Recommend/ Like to see a Button Called Persistent Connection.
   When activated Ebooster will then Always Keep the disk active allowing Faster random access Speeds. and Faster Program load ups, But in the Process the Hard drive or Flash drive will always be in Constant use.

   In anyway I believe this will Increase Eboosters Performance With Hard drives And Flash drives.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   chooky
   Beta Veteran

   You may have something there. The guys over on the OCZ Vertex forum found that the Windows Power plan, Balanced vs Performance and also Speedstep setting in the Bios affected SSD performance by up to 50%.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   genusis
   Member

   Haha Well i knwo this Stuff because i work With PC's All the time, Especially my Own PC , and by the way i Tried to use 250mb of ram From my 1250mb of ram total and it still did not speed it up much =[.

   Other than that Id say Persistent Connection would Boost Eboosters Cache read rate by 65-70% making it read almost Or better than Ram. Since Keeping the hard drive Active by Reading a set Read cache Over and over would allow Optimum Performance. Since the disk Does not slow Down its always active And Ready to Read cache right away, instead of Waiting for the drive to Restart its spin To Read the cache Which IS WHY HDD is slower than Ram.

   Ram is always Persistent since every little information passes through it. That's why You Told me ram is better, Yes it is faster and better but i would not Recommend Use ebooster To manage Your ram if you are below 2gb of ram. because to my knowledge your then Conflicting Between windows Trying to read it and Ebooster slowing it down To lie lets say a HDD When trying to read cache for cached Programs by ebooster.

   That's why Adding the Hidden Windows Ram thing is a good idea Since Windows doesn't use it at all So you Get the advantage Of Windows Not interrupting Eboosters Read speed form that part of the ram.

   Other than that im on my PC allot and i will be able to notice a speed change in the programs i use Frequently.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   mradr
   Member

   You wont see much differents when using only 250mb of ram, thats why they say to use 512mb with systems <= 2 GB of ram. At 250, thats just for system files I would bet, so you wouldn't see any or little boost from your programs as it is.

   Not at all actully. Actully it would "cost" more as you have to keep the HDD spinning and drawing in power like crazy. The reason disk stop spinning is for safty. What happens if you have it running like that and your little brother came in and push the tower over... will not much actully. Why? The disk wasn't spinning. Now take that same seno and make the disk spining. The arm of the HDD would jump then slam back down on your disk causing all sorta of damage as the disk keeps moving trying to get the data you wanted... There went your HDD and your data....

   As it is, HDD and SSD will have a limit to how much data they can spit out at random times, this is called random read and random write. This really isn't effected by the spining as alot of people may think. Actully its caused by how far the arm has to go too get the data. As for SSD, this is effected by something called channels, the more you have the more data can be push out the door at random times (I could be wrong on this one, SSD are a new tech). So at max, maybe it will save about .2-.5ms or a little around 2-3MB witch isn't much for the cost of it having to spin. Now this is random not sequential access.

   Sequential Access is where both SSD and HDD shine! Its where you read data like you would a line of text, instead of having to jump around for all the words for at line in a book. Even here they are cap at 50-120MB for HDD and (while still new) SSD can hit the 300MB mark easy.

   OCZ Vertex:
   1. Turn off pagefiles, any auto defrags, "Enable write caching on the disk", "Turn off hark disks" (You may change this one to 30min to 1hr to save some power but is not needed on desktops, only laptops.
   2. Sat the allocation unit sizes as they say when you format.
   3. Other little details that I dont remember..., but are on the OCZ Vertex site.

   Reason for this is, you want to lower the number of information the SDD has to put in its channels like I said above. If the channels are all ready busy with caching and looking for information, then loading will take longer as the program has to wait for a channel to open or have to use only one channel (witch is 1/4 of the data stream access). As for the power, you dont have to turn it off, but if you do; the system has to wake it up from "sleep" and thats where you get slow down, not data access. As for the allocation sizes... that has to do with something on the SSD chips them selfs... like I said too, its new tech so I dont know all the details, but i'm perty sure on the ones I know.

   Also... RAM will always be faster then HDD or even SSD due to low latency and push rate at the 1GB mark vs the 50-300MB of SDD and HDD...

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   genusis
   Member

   that information matter only on the type of HD you are using, Desktop PC for this will be fine but Laptop will require sata drives and a program to Auto disconnect the Drive if the laptop is bumped, other than that I've had 1 hard drive keep spinning and to tel the truth it does not cause damage to keep going as long as you keep it cool and Keep it stable or if you hard drive has Safety feature for if your PC gets bumped which most Laptops have this and Most desktops Are pretty stable, not to mess it up.

   Like you said the reach of the drive is true But another factor Is where ebooster should Place its information and how. It should place its information As close together and Near the absolute top or bottom so the Drive has an easier time accessing it.

   Persistent reading has always been used for allot Of things and so far it works great in speeding stuff up It pushes anythign to its limit cuasing ti to keep At its top speed, withotu slow down.

   Allot of servers use this for dedicated websites , one reason they load faster than undedicated its not he fact that's there the only ones its also the fact the hard drives are always active regardless of visitor and site related settings. yes you may say undedicated are on a shared server which is also true but undedicated Do not use Persistent HD connection since there shared the disk keeps going from activity from other sites but ts slower because of the fact the Disk lens and arm like you said has to reach thee data compared to the data of other sites.

   The purpose of Persistent connection is to increase random read speeds and help load data faster for everyone.

   that's why web servers use it. it also works on Home PC, it does not have to be a web server to do persistent connection. Some users use Home PC to host website and use Persistent Connection software To do it. on Home PC which helps speed it up.

   This would not work well on your main drive if you where using it for other things but A secondary HDD this would work nicely for since most Don't use them other than Page files data and such and just storing music and data.

   Posted 2 years ago #

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