Flash Cache Module. How important?

[Compman55]

On a dell laptop, how important is this to be enabled? What kind of real world speed do I gain from having this?

 

[Compman55]

Anyone????????

 

[Blain]

I'm guessing you'd see a "real world" gain of (&#177 2.84%

 

[corkyg]

AFAIK, FCM was designed to be used with Vista to enhance ReadyBoost. It does not work in XP. Don't know about Win7. It depends on your OS.

 

[fuzzymath10]

It's for Intel Turbo Memory. You need to actually have the mini pci-e flashcard in the slot; the BIOS setting simply permits detection. There's a driver for Vista and Windows 7.

If you have a Santa Rosa chipset (Latitude D series) it's pretty useless. If you have a Montevina chipset (Dell Latitude E series or newer), you can not only use larger cache modules, but have user pinning which allows you to choose which programs will remain in the cache.

I just did away with it and bought an SSD; this was meant to be a stopgap.

 

[Compman55]

Being a D830 I would guess it is worthless.