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Readyboost and SD Cards

  • 12-11-2007 6:17pm
    #1
    BCawley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 123 ✭✭


    Im thinking of getting a dell vostro 1000 with Vista business and 1GB ram.
    As I understand more that 1GB is desirable so thats where readyboost comes in.

    I have a 2GB Kingston (Taiwan-made) micro SD card, and a 1GB japan-made kingston micro-sd card.

    Now both are fairly full and thats where my question is.

    Do SD cards have to be completely empty to get the full benefit, and will those cards work ok?


Comments

  • #2
    subway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,131 ✭✭✭subway


    you have to assign a portion of the card over to readyboost.
    so if you want 1 gig readyboost, you need to free up 1 gig on the card.

    afaik readyboost doesnt work with sd cards as they are too slow,
    there is a workaround available, but imo that kind of defeats the purpose of a "boost"


  • #3
    BCawley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 123 ✭✭BCawley


    subway wrote: »
    afaik readyboost doesnt work with sd cards as they are too slow
    After a googling it says SD cards do work, but just to make sure to get the correct speeds.

    One thing thats bothered me though, the Vostro 1000 has max ram of 2 GB.
    Does that mean when it comes with 1GB, will only a 1Gb card work, or am i free to use up to a 4GB card?

    Thanks btw :D


  • #4
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    BCawley wrote: »
    After a googling it says SD cards do work, but just to make sure to get the correct speeds.

    One thing thats bothered me though, the Vostro 1000 has max ram of 2 GB.
    Does that mean when it comes with 1GB, will only a 1Gb card work, or am i free to use up to a 4GB card?

    Thanks btw :D

    That's just the max ram the motherboards can have installed in it. It shouldn't affect the sd card. Saying that readyboost isn't meant to be all that good. I really think you should just get a laptop with 2GBs ram instead.


  • #5
    BCawley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 123 ✭✭BCawley


    AlmightyCushion wrote: »
    That's just the max ram the motherboards can have installed in it. It shouldn't affect the sd card. Saying that readyboost isn't meant to be all that good. I really think you should just get a laptop with 2GBs ram instead.

    Thanks for the opinion. I'm working to a budget, so im not prepared to upgrade to 2GB. Having a 2GB card handy is sorta swinging me towards Windows Vista over XP


  • #6
    El_mariachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 381 ✭✭El_mariachi


    in the long run it would be better to hold off till u can get 2 gb as some one said ready boost isnt all that and I know, using vista ultimate on a gb ram and ready boost rarely "boosts" it


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  • #7
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,563 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    generally memory price drops all the time

    I've no idea if the Aldi €9.99 SD card could be used with ready boost but it's a lot cheaper than laptop memory at the moment :D

    readyboost is not part of the 3.5GB limit of 32bit vista , you can use up to 4GB of it.


    minimum amount of space free on the SD must be 256MB - but hardly worth doing it at that
    on a laptop with 1GB ram the main benefit might be power saving since the HDD will get used less


  • #8
    BCawley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 123 ✭✭BCawley


    Thanks for that. I plan on dual booting with Linux also so its mainly me just weighing up would it be better to get XP or Vista.

    Its Vista business, so as I understand I have downgrade rights for XP Pro.
    If I could get my hands on an XP Pro install disc, is it as simple as ringing up and quoting my Vista key?


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