MIG-31

Maxtor Corporation – a well-known maker of hard disk drives – has announced its new software driver that may boost performance of HDDs produced by the company by stunning 60%, according to some reports

MaxBoost is performance-boosting driver software which operates under Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP and which is designed to complement your Parallel ATA or Serial ATA hard disk drive by Maxtor. The MaxBoost driver intelligently caches data in the host system RAM before it is written to and read from the Maxtor disk drive, enhancing the effective storage speed of your system under a variety of system conditions and applications.

“Maxtor has released a new version of its MaxBoost Driver that is supposed to boost performances up to 60% on their hard disk drives,” a person, who tested the latest beta version of MaxBoost said.

You can grab the software to increase performance of your HDD.HERE

Before downloading: read this post by The_Neon_Cowboy

The_Neon_Cowboy

ok you can set you windows to use wht ever size memry to chace hdd read/writes defult 512k
i have mine set a 256 mb


this program uses 16 or 32 mb of system memory to cahce hdd read writes

is this not retarded?

this also increses risk of data loss

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The_Neon_Cowboy

it doesn't look good

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Murdock

Is this Drive faster then my Seagate Barracuda Udma 6 SATA with 3 meg. cache if so i will buy a Maxtor SaTA?

MIG-31

that i can not say personally as i only posted on the front page myself,and have never used a sata drive.

my 120g is a ide udma 5 hdd by wd.

but hold out somebody who will read this will answer.

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nForcer

I'm a bit skeptical about that claim. Everyone posts what was thier largest recordable increase but never what the average or expected increase. I'll be sticking with my Barracuda's.

Judas

i'm not taking changes.... i'm already running ATA133 faster then Sata 150......

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Murdock

Thats not true ,SATA 150 is much faster then ATA 133 when the Motherboard BIOS suport SATA fully
I install Win XP Pro in 14 minutes , and on ATA 133 it's 22 Minutes.....

Nuke209

how do u change it in windows?

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Murdock

I wanna know to chance what in windows, so i can answer your qestion, i do not understand what u mean to chanche what , u mean installing A SATA dive if that is your question ?,i had to install windows
again and press F6 to install the SATA Drive,otherwise the system crashed, u can get the drivers by your mobo vendor.
Let me know what your question exactly is plz.

Murdock

Btw i saw at saegate.com that my SATA 120 drive have 8 megs cache instead of the 3 meg i mentioned.

Nuke209

I'm sorry, I was referring to Neon Cowboy's post about how he can change it in windows, sorry bout that

and yea, I still wanna know

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Whobetta

I just tried this on my Maxtor ata 133 40gb drive and it does seem to load /read things a little faster, but It often pops up during games and says it has "run out of memory" and it disables itself..? I guess its beta and buggy...

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mkk

You simply are out of memory, since this kind of software needs free physical memory to operate and 256MB isn't even enough for quite a few of the games themselves today. Consult yout wallet.

-={420}=-

I have 256MB PC2100 and I've never had any problems. I know I should buy more but I don't need it enough to actually make me want to buy it.

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Murdock

have u tried to make your swapfile bigger,or buy your self an 256 mb stick it's more reliable to have 512Mb of
memory ,sertainly with the newest Games

greetz

mkk

Yeah but then again you mostly play a game from '98. 256MB isn't even enough to get some new games to start up and quite a few of the ones that do will still perform horribly due to RAM shortage.

snake

Doesn't work with nVidia ATA/SATA nForce 2 Drivers
Maxboost doesn't see my HDD
I wish i could try it at least
Snif !...

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MIG-31

will not install on my rig.

came up with "does not support dual cpu's" as i have only one cpu it must be incompatible with hyper-thread p4's.

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Murdock

What a Master blooper of Maxtor...........

MIG-31

could well be.

may work with ht disabled but i have no intention of doing so.

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krazy1

Well this I truly doubt.. I will put $$ down you are wrong. Especially if you are putting your drive against a Seagate SATA. Seagate is the only HD maker to date that has a TRUE SATA set up in their drives. All other HD makers use a board in the HD to convert from ATA to SATA.

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-={420}=-

Yeah like you know what games I play
FYI, I can play all the newest games that come out and have no problems putting all settings on max in Max Payne 2, MOHAA and expansions, Splinter Cell, NFSU, WC3 + FT, PoP, and all the other brand new games that just came out that I don't even feel like naming.
My swapfile is set to 384-512 and it never needs to increase, it just stays at 384.
I will most likely get a new stick of memory when I get my 64-bit system set up. Why would I invest in RAM for this mobo when I won't have it that much longer.

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Murdock

Make your swap file 1024 -2048 you shall see the games stop wining a bout memory shorten
try it i think your problem solved then.

Friendly greetz
Murdock


btw i had with HALO the same problem, and runs smooth now,and also with DEus ex 2 too it runs fluid now.
i hope i could help you whith this knowlege, and use nvHardpage to tweak your sytem, downloadeble at guru3d.com.
I wish u luck with playing your games smootly and without troubles,
I self have an Intel 2,6ghz 800FSB with Hypertrading @3,13 Ghz and my vid card core clock on 500Mhz and my Vid ram @ 700Mhz, It's Just a FX 5600 8x AGP ,and a p4c800 Deluxe ready for the extreme processor , with BIOS 1014,thats required for the newer prosessors like extreme prosessor for gaming ,i gonne buy one
one in the following Monts, and a Asus 9550 vid Card, i'm 42 Years young and p;aying Race and shooter games

I began with a 8080 processor with Dos 1.1 and always improve my system when nessasery

a hard ware Freak

Greetz Murdock and my Son ZeroOne ,i hope u have something about it and have a Merry Gaming Cristmas

If u have further question feel free to post.

-={420}=-

When did I say my games were "wining" about memory.

I said I have NO PROBLEMS with games, which means I don't have problems with my games.
Now this does not mean that I do have problems with games...don't misunderstand me.
I Never had to adjust my swap file higher as my system doesn't need it. It never even uses the whole 384MB anyways, only about 135MB so WHY would I increase it?

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Murdock

My reply was ment for WHOBETTA I hit the wrong button, my excuses.

The only thing i ment is if you have problems with the newest games to run smootly, increase your swapfile.
With Games like Halo And Deus ex 2, i'm sorry i express my self wrong it runs smootlier with a larger swap file'
lot of Gamers have problems with this two games that they don't run smootly if it isn't in your case leave your swap file on the amount you have
I ment it for other people to who read this thread too espesialy for WHOBETTA
The games i mentioned are wining about shorten of memory with this two games,and i Have 2x 512 corsair sticks running about 400 Mhz as system memory, and windows moke the swapfile greater than yours
and i have to increase the swap file.

I hope this misunderstanding from my side is forgiven

Friendly greatings and a merry christmas for you, and you all.