Will ReadyCache have a driver for Windows 10?

I am sure that SanDisk are working hard on getting the Windows 10 issues resolved. Once they get a fix from Condusiv they will have to do a lot of internal testing to ensure that the solution doesn’t break anything else.

Regards

Infinidim  :smiley:

Some positive feedback :laughing: the manual method posted in the sticky thread at the top of this forum did work for me, although I ended up being prompted to uninstal twice in a row after changing the service to manual.   Once installed the cache did take several reboots before statring to fill at a ‘normal’ rate but seems to be working fine now.

@wetnap wrote:

Hopefully this gets resolved soon, 4 more days and a whole lot of people are going to be upgrading all at once…

The Windows 10 update has been packed so anyone upgrading for the first time will not run into this issue. 

If you have upgraded prior to the Windows 10 patch try the manual uninstall instructions below.

http://forums.sandisk.com/t5/SanDisk-ReadyCache-SSD/ExpressCache-is-no-longer-working-after-updating-to-Windows-10/td-p/342053 

Link is broken

Good news!

I’m pleased to say I bit the bullet and upgraded to Windows 10 today and I have 7GB of cache and my PC seems just as responsive as it did under Windows 7.

Of course, this doesn’t help anyone who is stuck in Windows 10 with a non-working ReadyCache.

I had previously tried to get RC working in Windows 10 by installing/reinstalling & registry cleanup etc but in the end reverted back to Windows 7 using Windows 10’s “Go back to Windows 7” option until a fix was reported to be ready.  This might be a route for some of you to consider.

Sandisk - shame you didn’t test with the Windows 10 before the release date so we didn’t have to go through this - but well done on getting a working fix out now.

I have a problem with my Ready Cache SSD. I can not play Gefixte Software Express Cache for Windows 10th Because in Device Manager is to SSD under Ergebisse: The unit “SCSI \ Disk & Ven_SanDis_ & Prod_SDSSDRC032G \ 4 & 118795f3 & 0 & 000000” could not be migrated. Thus, the software does not find namely the SSD. My question is how I can in the Regedit for the device “SCSI \ Disk & Ven_SanDis_ & Prod_SDSSDRC032G \ 4 & 118795f3 & 0 & 000000” shall be migrated? After update until now I have the Sandisk Ready cache used with Intel® Smart Response Technology, as the Software Express Cache until recently not 10 running under Windows. Now there is a fix for the software. Only the Software Express Cache can not be installed because the can not find the SSD and I think that at Intel SSD Cache Intel® Smart Response Technology use in the Regedit what has bent flat. Therefore, the device can “SCSI \ Disk & Ven_SanDis_ & Prod_SDSSDRC032G \ 4 & 118795f3 & 0 & 000000” could not be migrated. The Intel® Smart Response Technology, I have planned only as a temporary stopgap. But the software Express Cache caches all HDs in system no matter which controller hanging. While the Intel® Smart Response Technology, only the boat caches Raid 0 drive. I have two HD’s as Raid 0, a HD 3 TB as a data HD and HD for backups. Thus, the Software Express Cache is much better in the function in connection with my Sandisk SSD Cache Ready. I want to save my Sytem themself. So I want that fixed on the Regedit. I just do not know where I put there because He has value SCSI \ Disk & Ven_SanDis_ & Prod_SDSSDRC032G \ 4 & 118795f3 & 0 & 000000 the SSD is migrated.

Here is a working link.

http://forums.sandisk.com/t5/SanDisk-ReadyCache-SSD/ExpressCache-is-no-longer-working-after-updating-to-Windows-10/m-p/342183

The manual fix works for me! Hooray! There’s no excuse for a fix or an update not being available in time for the windows 10 release though.

I have been working with SanDisk support and they have now got my ReadyCache working through some manual processes that they got me to perform.

I am also maonitoring the performance of ReadyCache to make sure that it has not broken anything else in Windows 10.

Currently things are working well thanks to the SanDisk support team.

I am sure that they will release soon a tool to fix the issues that many people have seen with ReadyCache since the update to Windows 10.

Regards

Infinidim :smiley:

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@infinidim & others with a working set up. I am curious to find out how its working out.

My EC setup seems to be working. Cache fills up. I see speed changes in apps.

But I am not so satisfied with boot speed.

There are two stages to boot up. First with the windows logo and circling dots. Then enter password to get to desktop when you also have circling dots. I am gauging bootup speed based on number of complete cycles of the dots on both stages. (A complete cycle = 2 cycles of the dots when the dots disappear before reappearing. Reappearance is the start of the next complete cycle).

–First stage takes two and a half complete cycles (Dots circling around five times+) (Doesn’t feel like EC is working fully)

–Second stage takes around one complete cycle. At this tage EC seems to be working as I am jumping straight to desktop skipping an additional blank screen which was a third phase before EC started working.

How many complete cycles of the dots are you seeing with EC?

My upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 7 deluxe home 64 on a HP desktop with a 32GB Sandisk ReadyCache SSD worked flawlessly. First before I started the Windows upgrade I uninstalled the readycache software & driver. Second ran the upgrade to Windows 10. After the upgrade was complete I installed ReadyCache ver. 1.3.2 and every thing works as it should. I have been folowing this forum after my first attempt at the Windows 10 failed to work with ReadyCache and I went back to Windows 7 using a disk image that I made before the upgrade. I used EaseUS todo backup free to make a disk image. As for performance I see a definate improvement by using the cache. I hope that Sandisk will optimize the driver for Windows 10 sometime soon, but for now I am satisfied. With the prices of SSD disks falling I am planning to purchace one and the cache ssd will be no longer matter. 

@redcache wrote:

@infinidim & others with a working set up. I am curious to find out how its working out.

 

My EC setup seems to be working. Cache fills up. I see speed changes in apps.

But I am not so satisfied with boot speed.

 

There are two stages to boot up. First with the windows logo and circling dots. Then enter password to get to desktop when you also have circling dots. I am gauging bootup speed based on number of complete cycles of the dots on both stages. (A complete cycle = 2 cycles of the dots when the dots disappear before reappearing. Reappearance is the start of the next complete cycle).

 

–First stage takes two and a half complete cycles (Dots circling around five times+) (Doesn’t feel like EC is working fully)

–Second stage takes around one complete cycle. At this tage EC seems to be working as I am jumping straight to desktop skipping an additional blank screen which was a third phase before EC started working.

 

How many complete cycles of the dots are you seeing with EC?

RedCache,

I am seeing very similiar things to you in boot speed.

I do have to say that the apps are running faster and also some of the operating system oprions as well  - Store is almost

instantaneous, Settings the same, Excel and Word are also very fast as well, Outlook is a bit slower but faster than not having ReadyCache working (think that is because of the loading of the “addins”.

Hope this helps

Infinidim  :smiley:

Yeah. If people’s boot speeds are anything like mine, it can’t be satisfying.

Part of the boot sequence is being sped up by cache and part of it isn’t.

It seems obvious.

Hi, is there an update now that we are into September…it was said that it’d release by end of August.

Still nothing. No updates. Mid September. The software obviously needs to be updated. Its not fully functional in windows 10.

Hi RedCache

I gave it up and installed a real SSD you might do the same since the prices are lower than ever.

It really RULES like a new 4 times faster PC with a boot time 8-10 sec. im an wery happy now …

Regards MrL

Assuming you have a W10 system with ReadyCache working and fast boot enabled, there’s a way to further decrease Windows load time if your system is suitable. Windows 10 can compress system files, and should automatically do it if it detects a small SSD as OS drive.

This uses a very light compression algorithm, and can also be used on a HDD, so that it needs to spend less time reading, with also the slight advantage of less cached lbas on the cache drive. The downside is a little extra CPU occupancy when accessing system files, but overall the decompression time of all of those acessed files to RAM can take less time than the slow hdd loading extra KBs. 

To verify current state, on admin prompt you do:

compact /CompactOS:query

To enable OS files compression you do:

compact /CompactOS:always

To disable OS files compression you do:

compact /CompactOS:never

Both enabling and disabling takes some time, and probably it’s a very bad ideia to interrupt both processes. End the end, you’ll be notified of the achieved compression ratio (usually close to 1.6:1).

To see results, you must give it time for ReadyCache to cache sensitive boot files again (three restarts after waiting some minutes after each to fill cache should do). After that, when the Windows own fast boot works in conjunction this compression, it can give you even faster boot times.

Not every computer is the same and, in some PC’s where there’s less CPU to spare, it can have a negative effect. But then, it’s easy to revert.

@MrL Did you end up getting a Sandisk drive? I highly doubt that after the experience with readycache, any of us would get sandisk drives.

@RedCache - After this MAJOR failour from SANDISK i must say i lost my trust in the product, so i didn’t look for it in the first place

i ended up with a KINGSTON V300 with 240gb and a 120 gb + i formattet my expresscache to a drive of 16gb SSD.

Used Acronis True Image 2014 to clone my HD to the SSD, then upgraded to Win10 = boot time of 8-10 sec.

under 20 sec. i have startet Chrome and loaded som news from the web = IAM A WERY HAPPY MAN !

almost at the end of September, still waiting…and waiting…and waiting…