Drive selection criteria?
By spectra9 | November 24th, 2008 | 6:34 am
What’s the criteria of the drive which can be selected in the “Add cache device” window? I have several partitions but eBoostr 3 only shows one of them even though other partitions which are both faster and have larger free space are available
Nov 24, 2008
You can add ordinary cache file to any partition of physical drive.
Exception is a memory cache which is always added to system drive.
As a workaround you can move such cache file to enother partition in windows explorer.
Nov 24, 2008
I have 2 physical drives, DriveA which contain 6 partitions, and DriveB which is a single partition. On the “Add cache device” window, the only available selection is the single partition in DriveB, aside from System memory and other USB disks.
I don’t quite understand what you meant by “memory cache which is always added to system drive”. Is this related to the “System memory” selection? I always thought that’s related to RAM?
Also, you can you give step by step instructions for the workaround you suggested? Thanks
Nov 25, 2008
spectra9, eBoostr does not show any partitions located on the same physical hard disk that has the system partition. Placing a cache file on the same hard disk does not make any sense, cause this will not eliminate “seek” delays and only gives additional hard disk load. That is why the only available is your another physical disk.
RAM cache dump (stored and used during shutdown and reboot) file is located on the system partition. However you may move it to another disk (if it is faster). Right-click on the RAM icon, disable it, move the file “c:\eBoostr.dat” to another partition or disk, wait for the icon to be refreshed in the Control Panel, right-click and “Enable” it.
Nov 26, 2008
Andrew, thanks a lot for your explanation, now I understand. It would be nice if this information is included in the documentation in the future to avoid unnecessary confusion :-)
Dec 01, 2008
OK, sure :)
BTW you can now select the partition you’d like to store RAM cache file in the “Add device” dialog (from build 473.)
Dec 05, 2008
Yep I notice that and using it ATM :-). However I would suggest to keep the option named “System Memory” without the “(Driver letter:)” behind it, and maybe only show a separate drive selection combo only when it’s selected. This will reduce clutter when there are many partitions. Together with a proper explanation text they will make things much clearer IMHO
Dec 08, 2008
spectra9, we’ve decided to remove this feature by default to prevent confusion. In order to enable ability to select partition for RAM cache you should edit the “settings.ini” file.