Comments on: Got A Slow SSD? Try FlashFire To Speed Things Up http://www.ghacks.net/2009/10/15/got-a-slow-ssd-try-flashfire-to-speed-things-up/ A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:10:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Justinhttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/10/15/got-a-slow-ssd-try-flashfire-to-speed-things-up/comment-page-1/#comment-1366563 Justin Sat, 17 Sep 2011 02:36:29 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=17314#comment-1366563 Doesn't support 64-bit at all... Would definitely be worth the time if it did though. Doesn’t support 64-bit at all… Would definitely be worth the time if it did though.

]]> By: Bolorerohttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/10/15/got-a-slow-ssd-try-flashfire-to-speed-things-up/comment-page-1/#comment-972479 Bolorero Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:43:06 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=17314#comment-972479 Damn, didn't believe it would speed up this much! Damn, didn’t believe it would speed up this much!

]]> By: Bradhttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/10/15/got-a-slow-ssd-try-flashfire-to-speed-things-up/comment-page-1/#comment-905190 Brad Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:09:05 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=17314#comment-905190 Flashfire works great. I use it on an XP netbook with MTRON SSD and on Windows7 with Kingston V+ SSD. In both instances the small writes were GREATLY improved whilst taking a very small hit on reads. What this meant for me was faster boots and programs opening much faster. Photoshop 7 is fully usable in 3.5 seconds or less and MS Office programs in 1 sec or less. Both of my hard drives are pretty fast anyway, Flashfire has made them faster. I used ATTO disk benchmark and Crystal diskmark to measure results. Definately recommend this software and make sure to check registry settings as outlined because it does matter. Flashfire works great. I use it on an XP netbook with MTRON SSD and on Windows7 with Kingston V+ SSD. In both instances the small writes were GREATLY improved whilst taking a very small hit on reads. What this meant for me was faster boots and programs opening much faster. Photoshop 7 is fully usable in 3.5 seconds or less and MS Office programs in 1 sec or less. Both of my hard drives are pretty fast anyway, Flashfire has made them faster. I used ATTO disk benchmark and Crystal diskmark to measure results. Definately recommend this software and make sure to check registry settings as outlined because it does matter.

]]> By: anonhttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/10/15/got-a-slow-ssd-try-flashfire-to-speed-things-up/comment-page-1/#comment-900410 anon Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:43:01 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=17314#comment-900410 If what this application does is act as a buffer for random writes, turning them into sequential ones before writing them to disk, then it should, at least in theory, work on normal hard drives as well, because newer hard drives have sequential write speeds not that far off from the best ssds. Also, relative to ssds, there is a much bigger difference between random write speeds and sequential write speeds when using a hard drive which could mean more of an improvement is seen when using this on hard drives instead of ssds. It does have a flaw though, which is there is a delay between the request to write the data and the data being written to non volatile memory, which could result in data loss in the event of a power cut, although it is possible this is countered by decreasing the time taken by the actual write. If what this application does is act as a buffer for random writes, turning them into sequential ones before writing them to disk, then it should, at least in theory, work on normal hard drives as well, because newer hard drives have sequential write speeds not that far off from the best ssds. Also, relative to ssds, there is a much bigger difference between random write speeds and sequential write speeds when using a hard drive which could mean more of an improvement is seen when using this on hard drives instead of ssds.

It does have a flaw though, which is there is a delay between the request to write the data and the data being written to non volatile memory, which could result in data loss in the event of a power cut, although it is possible this is countered by decreasing the time taken by the actual write.

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