ReadyBoost?

LittleHoov

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Do you folks think there would be any noticeable benefits to using ReadyBoost on my laptop? Its the system in my signature.

Im using 32 bit Vista, so getting more physical memory would be pointless. But I see as of this moment that my page file size is 980MB and last night when I was doing more multi-tasking it was right at 1024MB so surely there might be some room for improvement?


Also, would there be any difference between a USB drive and an SD card? I would rather use the SD card, because I can just leave it in and forget about it, and not have to worry about the USB drive protruding from my laptop.
 
Well if you already have 3 gigs of ram, and your using 32bit, if you add anything to boost the ram, it may not work, since 32bit is capped at 3gb of ram.
 
[-0MEGA-];1027929 said:
Flash drives are slower then hard drives.
Not quite. They may appear slower, thanks to all the bandwidth of USB2.0 being capped (I think that's why). However, if flash drives really were slower, no one would bother making SDDs, right? AFAIK SDDs and normal thumbdrives are based on the same technology.
 
Not quite. They may appear slower, thanks to all the bandwidth of USB2.0 being capped (I think that's why). However, if flash drives really were slower, no one would bother making SDDs, right? AFAIK SDDs and normal thumbdrives are based on the same technology.
Ok I should have rephrased it, USB-based flash drives are slower then newer SATA hard drives.
 
I used a 2GB USB jump drive on my acer, and didn't notice that big of a difference. Adding another GB of real RAM would work much better I think.
 
feed your beast more memory

for laptops it has great gain for power because flash uses less power than HDD (spinning)
i'd say get an 8 GB flash and stick it in.
Wikipedia said:
Using ReadyBoost-capable flash memory (NAND memory devices) for caching allows Windows Vista to service random disk reads with performance that is typically 80-100 times faster than random reads from traditional hard drives.

AnandTech wrote a great review on that subject:

Windows Vista Performance Guide

if you want to get really techy and understand what all the terminology means :

The Advancement of Windows: Michael Fortin >A video interview with Michael Fortin explaining all the new technologies in vista performance


an interesting note that he mentions something called superfetch which is something new to MS OSs which includes an AI to preload the stuff you use before you even open it based on your past behavior.

Wikipedia's page on Readyboost

i hope that cleared the image for you :)
 
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