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    ready boost sucks......

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by lkjhhjkl, Mar 4, 2007.

  1. lkjhhjkl

    lkjhhjkl Notebook Enthusiast

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    dont hope a 2gb SD card can improve a lot. one more gb ram is the solution..
     
    lkjhhjkl, Mar 4, 2007
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  2. Sucka

    Sucka Notebook Consultant

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    How much memory did you start off with? According to reviews, readyboost gives a nice performance gain in systems with under 1024mb of system memory.

    And remember, flash memory, usb memory will never be as fast as RAM. Readyboost is just a tool to help speed up performance in really slow machines. It may not be that great for you, but it's much better than the Readyboost built into XP though eh ;)
     
    Sucka, Mar 4, 2007
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    disco Notebook Guru

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    did u get the right card?
     
    disco, Mar 4, 2007
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    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    ReadyBoost is meant more as a hard drive substitute rather than a memory substitute. Great if you have a slower hard drive, but overall I do feel that ReadyBoost isn't going to help a lot of people in the end.
     
    Greg, Mar 4, 2007
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    how fast is your SD card?
     
    wobble987, Mar 4, 2007
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    ez2remember Notebook Evangelist

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    Flash memory has almost zero access time compared to harddrives. The transfer rates can't beat harddrives but that's not the point. It caches small files to boost performance. RAM is obviously a lot faster so there is no real substitute for it but ReadyBoost allows a cheap way to add GB's of extra cache.
     
    ez2remember, Mar 5, 2007
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