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   zPedro
   Beta Veteran

   Yesterday I added a Lexar SDHC 8GB PRO 133X to eBoostr, tried formatting it with exFat, tried NTFS, and the results were horrible. I had to repair MSOffice and Firefox, Thunderbird almost disappeared, som other programs ended to work so today I finnished removing the SD Card from eBoostr. Tried with and without Superfetch and Prefetch but nothing solved the problem. My system is Windows Vista 32 bit, 3 GB RAM, 1023 MB unmanaged memory and 500 MB NVCache for eBoostr. ReadyBoost and ReadyBoot disabled. I wonder if there is a limit of 4 GB cache for this card to be used with eBoostr?

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   zPedro
   Beta Veteran

   Problem solved but not understood. I removed Advanced Memory and NV caches. Unninstalled eBoostr, rebooted pc. Reinstalled eBoostr following all the steps. Created 3 caches, Advanced Memory, NVCache and SD Memory Card. This last one, although is a 8 GB Card, eBoostr only recognizes 4095 MB (I don't understand this). It's filling the cache right now for the second time but stopped at Advanced Memory 100%, NVCache 62%, SD Card 7%.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   zPedro
   Beta Veteran

   Thunderbird failed again so I excluded SD Memory Card from eBostr's cache again. Everything returned to normal after that. I'm not understanding what's going on. As soon as I can I'll try a different card.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   GraphMaN
   Member

   I read a comment by a Patriot Memory tech stating the rated speed of their memory is only good with the factory FAT format. When formatting with NTFS to make a bigger cache file the memory speed decreases significantly he flatly stated with no explanation of why.
   I wonder if others have found speed performance drops when formatting NTFS?

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Bunji94
   Beta Veteran

   This comment is regarding NTFS format but not regarding SD card. I'm using two USB flash thumb drives, one is FAT format 2GB and another is NTFS format 4GB. Originally, I was using them on FAT format but I formatted one of them into NFTS in the last November to test Ver 4.

   I do not ever have any problem with them during the test period regardless of format, FAT or NTFS, without negative experience of speed performance by the format difference. Only problem I encountered was the case of 2GB Kingston Data Traveler - Win Sys 32 Blue Screen ( http://bit.ly/Sys32BlueScrn ) when I replaced the thumb drive with Kingston's. There was a similar problem comment by another tester.

   While I have no words for SD card because I have not tested it yet, I would like to say that there is still some risk in using Flash memory drive/media due to quality depending the manufacture - which is the same story with DVD/CD media. [Bunji94 from Japan]

   Posted 1 year ago #

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