![]() Not “WOW” kind of fast, but small improvements here and there that became noticeable over time. While Linux might require more detailed setup with hard drive caching, Linux felt faster in some areas as a result. An SSD is a better investment if possible. After all of the effort involved, I saw little noticeable speed improvement on Windows. Since I hardly use Windows anymore, it felt like returning to a previous era of computing given all of the rebooting and system problems I encountered experimenting with hard drive caching in Windows. The speed difference is not an eye-popping “WOW” experience. Servers and virtual machines will no doubt benefit from RAM caching on Windows, but the everyday desktop user like myself hardly notices. ![]() Subsequent reads yield slightly faster results, but for one-time loads, such as games, there is hardly any noticeable difference. Until something is cached, which means loading the program/game/data for the first time, there is no speed increase. While benchmarks, such as CrystalDiskMark, show RAM-level speeds, everyday usage is different. ![]() Future reads of the same data (some levels and mods, for example) seem to load in less time, but the difference is negligible. Cache or not, the data must be read at least once before seeing a speed increase. There was slight, slight decrease in some load times, but for the most part, games loaded and played just as fast as they normally did from the uncached hard drive. ![]() Honestly, I did not see much of a difference in load times. I tried installing some games with long load times on the mechanical drive to see if they loaded faster or not. Be quick! eBoostr only gives you two hours per boot to try out the software.
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