MS Readyboost & eBoostr v4.5

I use a 16GB class 10 SDHC on my Win10 Acer E5-511. Currently it is using a
4GB ReadyBoost cache. ChrystalDiskMark shows speed up. ReadyBoost was not
invented while WinXP evolved. eBoostr v4.5 works on WinXP. Benchmarks show
speed up.

Norm X wrote:
I use a 16GB class 10 SDHC on my Win10 Acer E5-511. Currently it is using a
4GB ReadyBoost cache. ChrystalDiskMark shows speed up. ReadyBoost was not
invented while WinXP evolved. eBoostr v4.5 works on WinXP. Benchmarks show
speed up.



Why not just replace the hard drive with an SSD ?

The storage capacity is too high, for that machine to be
eMMC based. My assumption is, it's got a 2.5" drive bay
and uses SATA (based on age). Maybe you can put a
SATA SSD in there instead, if what you do requires
"speed" particularly.

https://www.acer.com/ac/en/IL/conten...l/NX.MPKET.004

Standard RAM is 4GB, so it's not short of RAM.

*******

One of the reasons I don't "soup up" my computers
here, is the lack of availability of affordable
10GbE. That would make it worthwhile using SSDs
everywhere. I have an SSD in my laptop, but it's
only really impressive for benchmarking. With
no fast I/O to get off the machine with, the speed
is a waste. My laptop only has USB2 ports, so backups
go no faster than ~35MB/sec. The LAN is GbE, which
is a good match for the speed of a regular HDD. I
cannot really backup at rates any faster than 100MB/sec.

Paul

"Paul" wrote
Norm X wrote:
I use a 16GB class 10 SDHC on my Win10 Acer E5-511. Currently it is using
a 4GB ReadyBoost cache. ChrystalDiskMark shows speed up. ReadyBoost was
not invented while WinXP evolved. eBoostr v4.5 works on WinXP. Benchmarks
show speed up.

Why not just replace the hard drive with an SSD ?

I already have an internal PATA 32GB SSD, C:\ D:\ is fast xSD mounted inside
a xSD / SDHC adapter. Crystaldiskmark shows that D:\ is as fast as a typical
HDD of that era, ~2008. C:\ is about 3x as fast. But the benchmarked speed
are inconsistent across the 4 read/write tests. I also use an 80GB FreeAgent
Drive HDD, E:/ But It only excels in some read/write IO. In SYSTEM I set up
MS pagefiles on each drive. It seems to work well, whatever the speed of
drive, this increases aggregate IO. I also try to distribute things like
/Temp and browser cache across drive. I bought with 500 MB RAM, but raised
up 1.5 GB by installing a second RAM module. WinXP works wee with only 1 GB.
eBoostr v4.5 goes beyond Readyboost by using 166 MB RAM for Readyboost like
cache. I still have enough RAM for WinXP which uses virtual memory upto 4GB
as I recall. Physical Address Extension (PAE) is also implemented in WinXP,
as I recall. So long as virtual memory is as fast as SDD I will never run
out of virtual memory.

And eBoostr v4.5 shows speed up under ChrystalDiskMark. This is on a souped
up Acer Aspire One netbook.

I use a 1080p monitor which if placed in front of my face. I use the HD
monitor to RDP into my two Win10 machines. So in addition to providing
computability for 32-bit software, it works well in a in distributed
computing. I'm 67 with no disposable income so this is good for me. I'm not
retired, I'm currently publishing in peer-reviewed science journals. Any
increase in compute power helps my publishing work,

As far as I recall, WinXP uses 25MB video RAM. I am yet to determine is a
VGA widescreen HD monitor would work on this 2008 WinXP machine. My router
has a 60MBps channel to the Internet. The router supports Gigabit Ethernet
to the two WinXP machines. The WinXP netbook connects at 54 MBps to WiFI and
at 100MBps on Ethernet. TaskManager says booth channels working and both
used as Windows sees fit. So aggregate I/O to my LAN is 154 MBps.

Because I have virually no disposable income it is better if I use
incremental upgrades rather than buy I new hot PC. On the other habd I am
thinking about a MOBO upgrade on my desktop PC depending of measured
cost/benefit RAM upgarde on my Acer E-5-511 notebook.

The storage capacity is too high, for that machine to be
eMMC based. My assumption is, it's got a 2.5" drive bay
and uses SATA (based on age). Maybe you can put a
SATA SSD in there instead, if what you do requires
"speed" particularly.

https://www.acer.com/ac/en/IL/conten...l/NX.MPKET.004

Standard RAM is 4GB, so it's not short of RAM.

*******

One of the reasons I don't "soup up" my computers
here, is the lack of availability of affordable
10GbE. That would make it worthwhile using SSDs
everywhere. I have an SSD in my laptop, but it's
only really impressive for benchmarking. With
no fast I/O to get off the machine with, the speed
is a waste. My laptop only has USB2 ports, so backups
go no faster than ~35MB/sec. The LAN is GbE, which
is a good match for the speed of a regular HDD. I
cannot really backup at rates any faster than 100MB/sec.

Paul