OK just a few questions about this I flunf on RLSLOG. Looks interesting though I dont know enough about it, any info would be great I could see a great use of this as my laptop doesnt like PS much and often crashes. Also does this mean if I have a 2gig flashdrive I can up my ram by 2gig? EBoostr PRO v2.0.417-CFF Posted on 20.04.2008 at 20:53 in Applications by Christian EBoostr is “ReadyBoost†feature for Windows XP. Shortly, you can use your USB memory stick(s) as new RAM module(s). And just one note, this application will not work with Windows Vista. Description: eBoostr™ is an alternative solution to Vista’s ReadyBoost and SuperFetch technologies now available on Windows XP It speeds up your PC and improves application responsiveness by using flash memory and free RAM as an extra layer of performance-boosting cache for your PC. Use up to four inexpensive flash devices to speed up your system. Add more speed to your PC without any hardware upgrade! What’s new in this version: Here goes a quick list of the additional features with more details below: * Memory caching (if you have plenty of RAM installed); * Exclude list (the most requested feature); * Power saving mode; * More than 4GB cache file size (on NTFS file system only); * One flash drive use on different computers; * Unlimited number of files in cache; * Build cache process improvement (including initial statistics used from XP prefetch information); * Load balancing mechanism improvements; * And many small fixes and enhancements; * And finally 16 new languages added: Portuguese, Ukrainian, Finnish, Czech, Danish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Polish, Korean, Swedish, Sinhalese, Lithuanian, Arabic, Belarusian, Japanese and Thai.
Oh yes, I saw this on rlslog too, very curious about it. I have a 1GB pen/flash drive (whatever) and I didn't think you could increase RAM with it. Probably doesn't work though.
its basically a pagefile but a bit faster than one on the hard disk. And because windows memory management is shit, it is always paging stuff even when you have 3GB free physical RAM, so as a result the flash drive wears out inside a month.
an area of hard disk that is used as RAM, supposedly if you run out of physical memory, but in the case of Windows, whenever it feels like using it instead of RAM. it is, obviously, considerably slower than RAM.
pagefile = virtual ram = your computer think it's ram, but actually it's hdd space. Flash memory is probably the worst technology to use as a ram, due to its limited read/write capabilities. Stay away from this.
external hard drives wouldn't have the problem of limited read/write cycles, but they wouldn't be any faster than internal hard drives and are probably slower.
Wait, does this mean the whole Readyboost concept is a sham, or just this particular software? I've had experiences with it before and I find it BARELY improves performance, if not at all.
hmm... the read-write thing about solid state memory... do you reckonthe same issue would surround solid state harddrives, also? and how about people who use solid compact flash cards in their in their computers as harddrives? i was planning on doing the same thing (cheap solind state, man ), but now i'm not so sure
