High hard disk load
By kyapjoco | October 15th, 2007 | 9:22 am
I barely notice any improvement except in some very, very rare instances. I’m using beta 3.
Every time I run any test when using eBoostr, the hard disk loads always spike to full. Is this really normal? I think in real-world usage there aren’t usually high hard disk loads unless you’re running disk-intensive apps and a system that swaps to the hard disk a lot.
One more thing. What’s the recommended capacity for your flash memory device and the read/write speed? And do more devices mean that they work in some sort of a raid mode (mirroring)?
Oct 15, 2007
If you use this program to test, yes it will use hard drive load, for me its about 75%. but maybe my harddrive is slower then yours.
Oct 15, 2007
I’m using this on a laptop and my hard disk runs at 5400 rpm. :)
Oct 16, 2007
Yes, this is normal. You are running the test. During the regular usage there will be no intensive disk usage operations.
The more–the better. In the new version to be released today your device’s speed will be tested after the build cache process. Device is not recommended to use if it has less than 2.5 MB/s random access read speed. However we do not disable it and you may get the boost sometimes.
Yes, that’s right. If you will use more than one device you will get an additional increase due to the asynchronous reading (some sort of RAID).