Anyone using ReadyBoost?

jw if anyone is using readyboost? i heard its a waste from some and that it helped others. i decided to buy an SD card from dell, since dell gave me a 50$ coupon. I bought my card for 73$; its SD made by sandisk, and has 4GB of memory. it also has a speed rating of III (6). This is supposed to be one of the faster sd cards out there with 20mb/s read and write speeds.

I figure if readyboost wont accomplish anything at least i can get some music on the SD card. My car's Headunit is compatible with SD cards. And if it does.. whoo

 

Readyboost does nothing if you have >1 GB of RAM.

 

i know i saw the benchmarks also. Still i had nothing better to spend the 50 dollar coupon on so thats what im getting. I want to try readyboost for myself with this fastest card to see if it adds performance. Probably wont i know and it doesnt matter because if that happens i have a 4 gig storage card

 

It wont hurt... Its kinda like turbo memory, where the gains become significantly smaller once you have 2 gigs of memory or more...

 

now the only question... to put nude lady pictures on the card or songs. Such a tough choice

 

screw readyboost. You can get a 2x 1gb memory kit for $50.

 

yeah but i already got 2 gigs of ram and i dont need any more. i think that anything over 2 gigs AT THE MOMENT is an overkill. The sd card can be used as a flash drive though which makes it dual purpose, hence why i got it.

 

LoL
I've noticed a difference.
I have 2 gigs RAM and 2GB of Ready Boost.
You should notice a difference in a couple of days.
As the memory gets full of Prefetched software and files you will see the difference.
Follow this thread
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=181861&page=2

 

good to hear i wonder how it will affect my system. but you know it doesnt matter how much it will help me, because i paid 23 dollars for it so...

 

It's not that bad of a "waste of money."
It will only help if you run out of ram. Instead of using the virtual memory will load it to the SD card. Which give up to 10x more performance.
Once again. Give it a couple of days and you will see improvements in load times .

 

Where are you getting these statistics from? In practice, if you have 2 GB of RAM, readyboost won't do anything, and may even slow the system down. If anything, it'll just work your HDD and processor harder as it constantly writes stuff onto the SD card.

 

All depends on usage senerios... As with anything in technology you have to examine the intended use before you jump the boat and say something is overkill for everyone.

For me 4GB is a bit cramped on my 1520 and I've had to resort to ReadyBoost on numerous occasions. I run a few Virtual Machines where i'm evaluating Exchange 2007 for rollout at my company, Visual Studio 2008 (on a Vista host), and Windows Server 2008... They all suck up quite a bit of RAM on them...

For me I need to dedicate 1-2GB of RAM to each one of those when running so I can easily end up feeling like I have 1GB of RAM... My usages might be unique to the developer community, but my point is there is no blanket statements that can fit everyone in technology, like most things.

 

It works if you run out of main memory.

I have 2gbs on mine, but when I fire up VMware server with a client that has dedicated 1gb for the vm machine, the system works better readyboosted by the SDcard.

Then again, its rather pointless most of the time. I save up about 300mb of RAM by booting into XP.

 

The laptop I just bought has 1 gig of ram, how much space could ReadyBoost use effectively? In other words, would it be worth it to get a 4 gig flash card, or would that be too much for ready boost to utilize.

 

Install a Turbo Memory chip instead then you'll at least notice a difference in performance....

 

hey, I searched the forum, for that, but nothing came up (maybe i'm using the wrong key words)

Would you mind explaining what that is?

 

Isn't that also a form of virtual memory?

 

That is what I am assuming as well, but how is it different from using ready boost on a flash card?

 

TurboMemory is a special form of flash memory that is installed inside of your computer. It should have faster access times than USB or external flash cards, but the actual performance increase from TurboMemory is still debated.

 

so, basically it uses ready boost, only with maybe slightly faster read/write times than compared to ready boost with an external flash card.

 

thanks, I actually found it on intel's site. I'm surprised that newegg does not carry this item.

 

just a fyi to readyboost users- when your computer wakes from sleep- it will churn the hard drive to write all that stuff BACK onto the SD card. vista bug. should be fixed with sp1. it may even be hotfixed by now... anyone know for sure?

 

thank god i never use the sleep option

 

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=2160&page=5

If anyone cares about how well readyboost works

 

I hope they will also make it write the SuperFetch cache to HD in hibernation too... Annoying to have the HD flare up to fill my 3+GB of free RAM when on battery power... Power expensive

 

ReadyBoost might get an upgrade in functionality in later Vista service packs.

 

I just took an old 50X Kingston 1gb CF card, and installed it into an ExpressCard (UDMA) reader on my Dell D830.

On Vista, the difference is quite significant.

I hope Intel comes out with a 4gb Turbo Memory card; I would buy one of those in a heartbeat.