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I am not an expert in benchmarking systems so I was hoping that another expert would chime in. I have been using the Dataram Ramdisk as a readyboost cache for several years as even a small cache really speeds up an old HDD system. Not all ramdisks can be used with readyboost. Softperfect...

Thanks for the tech talk Solandri. I agree that I am creating additional caches in RAM. However, I am also experiencing improved system response on both a T500 and a T61 laptop despite the small amount of "wasted" ram. Both are limited by SATA 2 speed and one laptop has rapidmode enabled and...

I have enabled readyboost on a RAMDISK for two Lenovo thinkpads using Samsung SSD's that were bound by SATA 2 speeds: T500 and T61. This is what I did: 1. Install Dataram Ramdisk ( I was using V4_4_0_RC34). I also use Softperfects Ramdisk but it does not work with the Readyboost feature...

After you have tried all the usual suggestions, one trick I discovered for windows 7 is to go into "turn windows features on and off" and untick the windows media player. I think this WEI caused confusion with WMP and my default VLC player. Disabling WMP cleared up the confusion. I have...

On my T61 thinkpad running win7 64bit and Middleton BIOS with 6GB RAM, I could no longer get WEIto run after I replaced the hard drive with a Samsung EVO SSD. This was disappointing to say the least as I wanted to see the drive score! I ran without the WEI rating for about 6 months until I...