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Readyboost is used to some degree even if there is RAM totally free.
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It's true that 16 gigs is plenty and then some extra for windows and with that amount of RAM the prefetch functions can do their awesome magic quite freely as even with good amount of multitasking around 10 gigs is free to be used for preloading anticipated stuff from hard disk.Ĭlick to expand.That is not entirely correct.
Not that they should die that often (And I do backups regularly as well) - it's just that dealing with dead drive at inconvenient moment can be rather irritating. And if it dies taking all the data with it it's no problem as it's running parallel to HD. In my opinion it's a bit of waste to put big files on SSD as HD sequential read speed is almost as good - so, for example, a 16 Gb SSD would be ideal for readyboost - just hold the smaller files in there and let the hard disks handle the large reads.
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Windows 7 supports up to 8 readyboost devices that each can be up to 32 gigs. AS I have found out it can be done - just trying to find out how exactly. I want it to presist so that it would speed up a bit my boot up time. My current porblem is, that Win 7 dumps the readyboost cashe at every restart and then rebuilds it afterwards. However, considering that I am sitting only on hard disks I think some performance gain can be achieved from readyboost as 4K random read is considerably faster from flash than from HD even if the flash device is not a real SSD. I'll see what I can do around there if anything.Ĭlick to expand.It's true that 16 gigs is plenty and then some extra for windows and with that amount of RAM the prefetch functions can do their awesome magic quite freely as even with good amount of multitasking around 10 gigs is free to be used for preloading anticipated stuff from hard disk.
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It seems the performance is good enough - now all I have to do is to figure out how to enforce the ReadyBoost on the drive and flag it as "internal" so that the cache is not flushed on reboot.Įdit 3: I think that ReadyBoost could be manually tweaked using the registry as I have found such quote: "When you insert a flash device like a USB key into a system, the ReadyBoost service looks at the device to determine its performance characteristics and stores the results of its test in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Currentversion\Emdmgmt" Where A is the disk you are interested in (in my case a compact flash card attached through the IDE to DF converter). WinSat disk -read -ran -ransize 4096 -drive A From a Microsoft whitepaper: "Integrated devices that support ReadyBoost retain data even when the machine is suspended or put into hibernation."Įdit 2: From the same whitepaper a convenient command line tool for finding out the disk performance. I have 4 Gb USB stick in the internal USB slot currently flagged as dedicated ReadyBoost drive.Įdit: I think it should be possible to make ReadyBoost persistent.
I have 16 Gb of RAM, I'm not particularly keen on getting an SSD for a system drive (not considering them reliable enough for that) but I do have an USB 2.0 slot inside the case (5 port PCI USB card with one slot inside the case) and 8 GB CompactFlash card in the IDE slot inside the case (still thinking what to do with it). As far as I have been able to google up on this it seems ReadyDrive is aimed at hybrid drives with small SSD+regular HD in the same drive - but I would like to use the CF card for that that is separate from the rest of my hard disks.
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Or alternatively is there a way to turn a single simple volume into a ReadyDrive ? Say an USB stick or CF card attached to the PC through the IDE interface. Is there a way to make Win 7 to keep the ReadyBoost cache over the reboot (and not encrypt it or keep the encryption key across the reboot) - so that the ReadyBoost could actually boost the boot up speed instead of slowing it down by rebuilding the cache while the system tries to load.