suggestion

By asesino78 | December 4th, 2008 | 12:25 am

first of all, the program is great i probe it the first and second version just trial and the programs in general opens faster, there are some suggestions that i want to say, I know that maybe there are difficult to put it in the program but had nothing to loose ! so here they are: from the second version its available to manage ram memory from the system, there are many computers at this time that have 4 gigs ram and working in XP, as is well know, flash memorys aren’t soo good managing small files, in fact small files are the headhache of the flash usb, so.. why not.. try to make that the smallest files were priority to be cached in the ram memory (where is possible) as many of the smallest files togheter doesnt really make a big amount of memory… and the ram is too much faster than HD or USB flash managing them, maybe this will increase the performance many times and making the big files (call them from 2MB and above) being cached into the flash memory or making this an option.. minimum file size to be cached in flash and maximum file size to be cached in ram… and make this an advanced option… letting the program to manage the best file size to be cached according to if you have ram to cache or not.

and the second and maybe the more difficult, trying to do a kind a of .. raid with the memorys… i have noticed that some files are equal cached in the flash memories.. i dont really know if this is benefical or if the program really read “chunks” of information from as many flash are installed.. maybe if not… then ebooster reads only from one memory the more available.. but there is no better to read from all togheter? i know this is more difficult as it sounds but maybe if they function as RAID 1 (i think managing raid 0 is too much work and maybe impossible) but there maybe would be another advanced option, making the flash 1 and flash 2, totally differents in content (option NO RAID) or making a copy of flash 1 into flash 2 (option RAID 1) and let the program read from the 2 memories at the same time… I dont know, its an idea that maybe it sounds very simple but too much difficult to make it real

 

the priority list is a great advantage that i want to probe since i have a big list of exclusion files and folders to prevent that inf, jpg, and some others small files and folders that contents it, to be cached into the flash usb… by the way, i have a usb hub full 2.0 and 4 usb readyboost supported flash memories taking care that the 4 usb doesnt read in conjunction more than 60 MB/s thats why i suggest that ebooster maybe can take advantage of this configuration of 4 usb in a hub with a maximum of 60MB/s of read/write .. . . .

 

thanks for reading it

One Response to “suggestion”

  1. Ilya Elenik
    Dec 04, 2008

    Thank you for your suggestions.
    There is a problem for storing small files in memory. We are able to speed up file reading but we can not do anything with file opening times. If you spend 100ms in open procedure there will not be much difference in 10ms or 1ms reading.
    In the 3rd version RAID1 is default behavior for non-memory devices. More over, there is a smart balancing (depended from device speed) between different file sources.