New use for Turbomemory?

Here's a little how-to for all of you who have turbomemory, but dont use it.

Recently, I have started looking in new ways at my laptop, and one of these is the turbomemory stuck inside it. I had never actually USED the readyboost part as I always thought 0.5Gb was a cop out. I looked for a way to combine the two paritions into one and use all of it for readydrive, but i couldnt find one.

So, after a little tinkering and a little exploration of the registry, I've managed to disable automatic readyboost on it, allowing me to run it as a photoshop scratch disk (and it works wonders). Here's how:

1) Enable readyboost using the turbomemory console and reboot.

2) Open Disk Management

3) Right click on NVCACHE and mark it as active

4) Change the drive letter - fix it to the next available disk slot.

5) Open regedit (heres the dodgy part - if you dont know what regedit is, do NOT attempt this, or at least get help)

6) Navigate to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\EMDMgmt

7) Navigate to the key named **NVCACHE_#########, where * is some random chinese character, and # is a random number

8) In this key, set CacheStatus to 2 nd CacheSizeInMB to 0

9) Reboot

Congratulations, you now have a ultrafast internal drive for doing jack all. I primarily use it for storing temp files, stuff from the internet and for my photoshop scratch disk. Ive only done a little write to it, but initially i was getting around 50MB/sec sequential write - i think i was only limited by the bottleneck of the hard drive and subsequent transfer.

Anyways, while a little useless it gives life to something that would have otherwise lain dormant. Enjoy

(WOOP!!! first post - only just realised )

 

Good first post! But that exactly helps how? The problem with this technology is RAM does it or HDD does! Why does ready boost help in a meaningful way?

 

So you're using the TM space as a fast disk or do I need sleep?

 

It doesnt - thats why I disabled it.

Although only 15, even i can see the benefit of readyboost. Some people just notice it more than others.

 

We both need sleep!

 

Yes im using the flash as a fast file storage

 

So only PP needs sleep.
512MB of fast storage? sounds cool. Like a buffer zone.

 

It is cool - works better as a disk than as a readyboost cache.

I wonder why Intel didnt add support for this into their drivers?

 

Send them the idea, then they can maybe incorporate that into a nice interface to take care of the details. I also assume you still use Ready Drive, right? Very nice find. +rep

 

Wow,innovative thinking.