SXPS 1640 Ready Boost With a SDHC card

Dear fellow SXPS 1640 owners,

I need some help:
1) I want to know if anybody is using an SDHC card as a readyboost drive
2) What are the maximum SDHC specs that can be utilized by the computer (both size and class), i.e., what is the maximum size and speed supported by the reader.

If am thinking of buying this card for readyboost (I plan to have it always in the slot):
http://www.amazon.com/Patriot-Class-Flash-Memory-PSF8GSDHC10/dp/B002TA7VO2/ref=reg_hu-wl_item-added

Your help will be appreciated because I never used my media card reader and I do not want to buy something that is not going to work.

Thanks in advance,

Haris

 

I have the 16GB version of that card and it works fine. It's a Class 10 which means write speed should perform at least 10MB/sec, it actually performs about 16MB in my testing. Read speed is about 18MB per second.

I wouldn't bother with ReadyBoost.

 

Thanks for your responce. What are you using your Intel Turbo Memory if not for ReadyBoost? I figured out that if I use an SD card, I can always use it for something else or for just storing stuff if I do not like ReadyBoost.

 

I got rid of the Intel Turbo Memory, didn't work. But the two primary benefits would be support for ReadyDrive which caches files from the hard disk making them faster to access, and User Pinning that lets you "pin" files on the hard disk to flash for faster access/load times. I could never get it working though.

 

I have a 16 GB Kingston SDHC card. No need for ReadyBoost unless you have like 512 MB RAM, which no SXPS 16 does.

 

Readyboost was a bit of a con really, any normal SD or USB or any other storage device was never fast enough to make a difference, it just means you don't have to use tha page file (the page file, incidently, is probably faster than using readyboost anyway, given that most memory sticks have data rates in single digits).

 

Thanks for the responses. I am running a MATLAB script reading several small files over and over in a random order. I borrowed an SD card from a friend, it is class four and the computer seems smoother when I run MATLAB. I am going to give it a shot with that SD card which I can always use for storage or something.