Creating Cashe on HDD for quicker boots

Anheanz · May 17, 2014

I saw a video on youtube that mentioned creating a large cache on a HDD to move the startup programs onto that would make it a psuedo hybrid drive.
The idea behind doing this seems relatively simple, but actually putting doing it is not as simple. I'm wondering if this is actually not a very difficult thing to do, or if it is actually even possible at all; if anybody could tell me if/how to do this, i would really appreciate it.

On another note, i havent been getting notifications on when somebody comments on a thread ive created/commented on, so i was wondering if there is a spot on my profile or elsewhere that i could go to that would show me my thread or complete list of all post's ive made. This is a picture from another forum im a part of that shows what im talking about

Shaun o · May 17, 2014

All hard drives basically caches files by default to speed them up.
The cache of a hard drive or buffer stores the next bit of data to be used or sent to the cpu or sent to a system memory location.

On a true hybrid drive for example a drive with flash based memory embedded with the mechanical hard drive.
The way it speeds the loading times of things is to take note of the most frequently used programs.
It then pre loads the data off the hard drive and stores it on the flash memory provided on the hybrid drive.

The best way if you wish to run programs after windows is loaded, and you have lots of memory in your system say 16gb or more.
Is to create a ram drive, or what we call a scratch disk.

It creates a virtual drive space in system memory and presents it`s self as a hard drive device once configured.

Then the data is pre loaded from the mechanical drive, its last state each and every time the system boots into windows.
The advantage of this is because memory vs a mechanical HD is about a 1000 times faster at loading and processing data. At a much higher speed.

Every time you you add a program to run on a ram disk setup it will add the program to run and store it in system memory. Executing it from a ram disk as said will be much faster a said. for the reason above because with a mechanical hard disk you are waiting for the read and write heads of the drive to constantly move to read chunks of data.
Since the data is not in a fixed order placed on the magnetic platter.

http://memory.dataram.com/products-and-services/software/ramdisk/

Anheanz · May 17, 2014

hmm, so i think i get everything your saying, but im not really looking for everything to be faster as if SSD, but really only for power on and boot up. Would i be able to create like a certain partitian on my HDD, where i could store only my OS so that my computer could go from off to ready to use very quickly, or would the only way to get the product in the link you included?

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