Does the Intel® Turbo Memory hard drive cache: 1GB really makes a difference?

Does the Intel® Turbo Memory hard drive cache: 1GB really makes a difference?

By the way, why do LENODO doesnt offers a XVGA+ screen with camera on the T61 model?

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It only works with Vista and I've found that the Turbo Memory might make your machine start up faster, but have not found it to do much more if you have enough memory.

If for some reason you end up running Vista with 1gb RAM then Turbo Memory helps a little, but not enough to make the experience pleasant.

Actually, Turbo Memory's 1GB is halved between Turbo Memory(512MB) and Ready Boost (512MB). I think that's a big decision mistake because Vista only allows one Ready Boost device. So, if you get Turbo Memory you are limited to 512MB Ready Boost cache...

You can disable the Ready Boost portion of Turbo Memory and use your own device for Ready Boost, but that means you are not using half of the Turbo Memory, not a very good investment in my opinion. I wish they just allocated the entire 1gb to Turbo Memory and not included Ready Boost cache.

I hear there is a Turbo Memory 2, but I would pass on the current Turbo Memory implementation based on personal experience.

 

It makes absolutely no difference on systems with more than 1Gb memory but the difference is noticeable on 1Gb and below...

You can search out tons of threads where this has been tested on this site.

 

I agree with Les. If you have enough RAM, the OS holds enough data in RAM that ReadyBoost/TurboMemory isn't very useful. It only helps when there is so little RAM that TurboMemory is necessary to avoid a lot of paging in and out with the hard disk drive.

Coupled with the fact that TurboMemory doesn't work if you decide to roll back to Windows XP for any reason, and must be disabled to avoid problems, and it's a lot better choice to make sure you have all the RAM the OS can possibly use, than to have TurboMemory.

 

After making performance measurements, HP decided not to offer it because it makes the most marginal of differences.

 

Thank you very much for your input.

 

Yes marginal at best would be the general agreement. Intel needs to add more memory to it to make it more useful, or redesign the caching process.