A couple of feature requests

By dexter | October 25th, 2007 | 1:18 am

eBoostr is a promising program and I feel it could be better if these two features were implemented:

1) Option to enable/disable boot caching. – Many people (myself included) on’t (re)boot often, so for them, boot acceleration is just a waste of cache space. That space could be used for caching something more useful.

2)  A tool/option to measure the flash drive’s speed and decide if it’s fast enough for eBoostr. – This option would be similar to the one in Vista’s ReadyBoost, and I feel it’s critical for eBoostr’s success. The market is flooded with too many cheap/low speed flash drives these days. :(

2 Responses to “A couple of feature requests”

  1. Ilya Elenik
    Oct 25, 2007

    eBoostr caches only the most frequently read files. So if you boot your machine not often then the boot files will be replaced by other files with better statistics.
    As for speed measure–you should see a random read speed for a flash drive after cache is built. More over you can examine your overall system speed up:
    http://www.eboostr.com/beta/performance-test-plan/

    Thank you for your suggestions.


  2. dexter
    Oct 26, 2007

    So is there any minimum or recommended speed yet?

    Because on my system, my overall performance decreased.



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