| Author |
Turn Flash Disk to RAM |
belialwafu
Joined: Jun 01, 2007
Posts: > 500
From: Texting Capital of the World
PM |
Its eBoostr...anyone heard of it? I'm using 3g of flash disk right now and it loads my apps really fast...just wanna share with you guys what i've discovered  cheers!
*Edit* I forgot the site its www.eBoostr.com cheers!
_________________
I  my life
I my  700i
I
A TRUSTED Pay To Click Site! EARN <--Click HerePM ME FOR INFO
[ This Message was edited by: belialwafu on 2008-04-20 13:19 ] |
|
|
Cycovision
Joined: Nov 30, 2003
Posts: > 500
From: England
PM, WWW
|
Nice find!
Just a word of caution though, pre-caching files can indeed speed up application performance (well, sometimes!) but it can also cause your PC to start up more slowly. This is why many PC performance freaks turn off pre-caching altogether.
However, since this system uses non-volatile memory (the USB stick) for the prefetch files, it might not cause this effect since it shouldn't have to load them in from the hard drive on start up 
|
paul101
Joined: Mar 26, 2007
Posts: > 500
From: first to last
PM, WWW
|
to be honest, youre better off just adding more ram!! you can get a 1gb stick for less than a 512mb pen drive! (besides my motherboard has 5 slots )
also, most pen drives dont have very good read / write speeds (at least mines doesn't  )
but good anyway
_________________
By the Year 2020 We shall RULE THE WORLD - Tesco... every little helps
It's Raining, It's Pouring...
Oh sh1t, it's Global Warming.
[ This Message was edited by: paul101 on 2008-04-20 15:57 ] |
thomas93
Joined: Sep 28, 2007
Posts: 444
PM |
Paul, you have a Shuttle right?
If I rigged one up powerfully would it overheat easily? |
paul101
Joined: Mar 26, 2007
Posts: > 500
From: first to last
PM, WWW
|
whats a shuttle? 
I don't wanna sleep
I don't wanna dream
'cause my dreams don't comfort me |
masseur
Joined: Jan 03, 2003
Posts: > 500
From: Sydney, London
PM |
here's another thread on this topic by Dogmann
Boosting your Ram on Vista is cheap.
|
belialwafu
Joined: Jun 01, 2007
Posts: > 500
From: Texting Capital of the World
PM |
the idea of this is really in vista. the app that i found is made intenionally for windows XP and i can play CoD 4 + Mozilla + Windows Media Player + 1 AV + 1 Anti Spyware program with just 1g ram..haha but it doesnt mean that the amount of flash disk you put is added really to RAM its just putting the cache in there rather in the hard disk. This is recommended for Laptop users
[addsig] |
QVGA
Joined: May 23, 2006
Posts: > 500
From: Pakistan
PM, WWW
|
I used ready boost in vista with a 2GB flash disk. There was no performance improvement, the only thing i noticed that my HD was accessed a lot less when using windows.
|
rockygali
Joined: Nov 21, 2005
Posts: > 500
From:
PM, WWW
|
so for safe keeping and minding all the read/write speed...
im using it on a USB2.0 with a 4G SDHC.... and it does speeds up the PC performance.... hence, maybe im just imagining things here.....
but to be honest... its alot faster if you borrow cache from your RAM.
eerr... i think...
"Darkness is the absence of light.. and not the opposite..." |
belialwafu
Joined: Jun 01, 2007
Posts: > 500
From: Texting Capital of the World
PM |
On 2008-04-21 08:55:57, rockygali wrote:
so for safe keeping and minding all the read/write speed...
im using it on a USB2.0 with a 4G SDHC.... and it does speeds up the PC performance.... hence, maybe im just imagining things here.....
but to be honest... its alot faster if you borrow cache from your RAM.
eerr... i think...
just dont forget that if you have 1gb ram dont use it. Atleast 1.5g or higher RAM is need. always leave 1gb ram untouched
[addsig] |
Aware
Joined: Jun 24, 2006
Posts: > 500
From: Oxon, UK
PM |
OT maybe, but why the hell can no-one develop this for smartphones?? Which could actually USE the extra RAM, as OEMs are repetitively too tight to put a decent amount in their 'flagship' devices(I mean 256+ mb, esp. when many are using 500+Mhz processors)......
 p990i(r6d), n82-1(20.0.062) * treat people as you expect to be treated! * a-zott platinum/tttt in ~3 years...  rip expanded call lists! |
belialwafu
Joined: Jun 01, 2007
Posts: > 500
From: Texting Capital of the World
PM |
hmm..can you imagine a flash disk sticking out of your phone? haha
[addsig] |
tapojyoti
Joined: Oct 12, 2007
Posts: 15
From: The world above this one
PM, WWW
|
Yeah..I can,in my imagination,I can see it close to the usb port on the left side.  |
arien617
Joined: Feb 01, 2006
Posts: > 500
PM |
On 2008-04-21 15:40:27, belialwafu wrote:
hmm..can you imagine a flash disk sticking out of your phone? haha
The memory card?
Most do have more than a gig in their phones...
|
belialwafu
Joined: Jun 01, 2007
Posts: > 500
From: Texting Capital of the World
PM |
ahm ya, but the point is, the amount of flash disk you choose is not going to be literally a RAM, instead of the files caching on a Hard Disk, the cache files goes to the flash disk that you added. So that means less stress for the HD and less memory it needed to do the task. So in cellphones, you cant use your mem card because it is like the Hard Disk of the computer.
[addsig] |
|
|
Posted: 2008-04-20 14:04
p990i(r6d), n82-1(20.0.062)
