Cache

Right click DVDIdle icon on taskbar, click "Settings" on menu bar, then click "Cache" you will see this dialog:



  • Enable: If your DVD-ROM's speed is 1x-4x, the Smart Read-ahead Cache can not works well, you can simply disable it.
  • RAM-based Cache: The titles of DVD will be cached to RAM, you can specify how much RAM to be used.
  • Disk-based Cache: The titles of DVD will be cached to hard disk.
  • Recommanded Settings: Locate the hard disk drive with maximum free space automatically and set cache size to 600MB which works well for most situation.
  • Cache drive: Select which hard disk drive to be used for Smart Read-ahead Cache. Only local hard disk drive can be used.
  • Cache size: Select how much disk space to be used for Smart Read-ahead Cache, and it should be smaller than 2GB.