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More readyboost questions

  • 26-01-2008 6:23pm
    #1
    Johnny Storm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,992 ✭✭✭


    I have a Vista Laptop with 2G of Ram. I also have a 2G SD card which is working as the ReadyBoost cache.

    Q1: I have ordered a 4G USB stick and am thinking of getting a 4 or 8G SDHC card and a suitable reader that can go in the Express card slot. The question is how can you measure the in/out speed of these little cards/sticks to see which is best for Readyboost.

    Q2: Is 4G still the maximum possible ReadyBoost cache size? Is that likely to be increased soonish?


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  • #2
    PogMoThoin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    What are you goin 2 be running that will need so much cache :eek: Is 2Gb ram & page file not enough? cant really see you getting much improvement from readyboost as your not short on ram or page file

    Yes, 4gb is the max, more answers here and here


  • #3
    mukki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,669 ✭✭✭mukki


    Johnny Storm wrote: »
    I have a Vista Laptop with 2G of Ram. I also have a 2G SD card which is working as the ReadyBoost cache.

    Q1: I have ordered a 4G USB stick and am thinking of getting a 4 or 8G SDHC card and a suitable reader that can go in the Express card slot. The question is how can you measure the in/out speed of these little cards/sticks to see which is best for Readyboost.

    Q2: Is 4G still the maximum possible ReadyBoost cache size? Is that likely to be increased soonish?


    pretty sure ready boost only woks with usb pen drives, or is there a reg tweak to fix it?

    from http://blogs.msdn.com/tomarcher/archive/2006/06/02/615199.aspx
    Q: Why don't you support SD on my USB2.0 external card reader?
    A: We unfortunately don't support external card readers - there were some technical hurdles that we didn't have time to address. In general, if a card reader shows a drive without media in it (like a floppy drive or CD ROM does), we can't use it for ReadyBoost.


  • #4
    PogMoThoin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    mukki wrote: »
    pretty sure ready boost only woks with usb pen drives, or is there a reg tweak to fix it?

    It works on SD memory cards, just not on external usb card readers.


  • #5
    Dorsanty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 535 ✭✭✭Dorsanty


    Just started using ReadyBoost on my Desktop. 2GB RAM and 1GB USB Pen drive.


    Can't say I've noticed anything yet which will keep me running it long term. Still I wait to be convinced.

    As for how it works, I assume it uses the ReadyBoost cache before the page file as the page file is a write to disk which is slower then to the flash memory? Can anyone confirm that? So with lets say 2GB USB pen drive you could disable the page file all together.


  • #6
    Johnny Storm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,992 ✭✭✭Johnny Storm


    PogMoThoin wrote: »
    What are you goin 2 be running that will need so much cache :eek: Is 2Gb ram & page file not enough? cant really see you getting much improvement from readyboost as your not short on ram or page file

    Yes, 4gb is the max, more answers here and here

    Thanks for the info. I'm not running anything special I just want the little b@stard to go a bit faster.

    FYI your two links seem to be the same?


    EDIT:-
    PogMaThoin said:
    It works on SD memory cards, just not on external usb card readers.

    I wonder would it work on an SDHC card in an ExpressCard Adapter?



    Also is there a way the home user can measure the spped of an SD card, USB stick or similar?


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  • #7
    mukki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,669 ✭✭✭mukki


    Dorsanty wrote: »
    Just started using ReadyBoost on my Desktop. 2GB RAM and 1GB USB Pen drive.


    Can't say I've noticed anything yet which will keep me running it long term. Still I wait to be convinced.

    As for how it works, I assume it uses the ReadyBoost cache before the page file as the page file is a write to disk which is slower then to the flash memory? Can anyone confirm that? So with lets say 2GB USB pen drive you could disable the page file all together.

    its all in the msdn link above


    in gamers terms
    think of a usb key as 512kb broadband with a 20ms ping and think of a hard drive as 4mb broadband with a 500ms ping


    either would be pretty crap on thier on, but having both would rock


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