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    1Gig ReadyBoost

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by mikeymike, Jun 3, 2007.

  1. mikeymike

    mikeymike Notebook Evangelist

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  2. Mark

    Mark Desktop Debugger

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    Interesting, I wonder how true those numbers are....
     
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  3. ViciousXUSMC

    ViciousXUSMC Master Viking NBR Reviewer

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    yeah because it gets loaded into the ram.... thats common sense.
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Jun 3, 2007
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    I put it on my iPod when it first came out, and I don't notice a difference at all. I thought I heard not too long ago that ReadyBoost still doesn't work. :S

    Then again, that was so long ago, I might not know the difference at this point.
     
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    ViciousXUSMC Master Viking NBR Reviewer

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    depends on the medias speed too.

    between usb 2.0 flash drives top ones come close to like 24mb/s transfer, while a cheaper one may be in the 15's.

    Who knows what speed an ipod is.
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Jun 3, 2007
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  6. John Ratsey

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    I've got a Sandisk Extreme III 2GB which, I believe, is among the fastest of the SD cards.

    I have tried it out in my Q35 with Paint Shop Pro 8. The first time I ran PSP 8 it took about 16 seconds to get started. With the SD card and 1.6GB given to ReadyBoost this dropped to 6 seconds. But I then took the SD card out and still got 6 seconds startup time. Go figure... I believe vista has other program loading optimisations and once it knows that will get loaded then it will pre-load parts of a module into spare RAM.

    Last week I did a DVD playback test on battery with the 2GB SD card in and I think I was getting an extra 15 minutes run time on battery. The optical drive was running intermittently and I suspect that Vista was using the ReadyBoost to cache the DVD rather than run the optical drive continuously.

    So maybe ReadyBoost gives some improvements in some situations, but I don't think you get everything that is promised.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Jun 3, 2007
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    Squallff8aus Notebook Guru

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    heh. and i challenge PNY to do that again AFTER they turned off superfetch in the registry.

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters\EnableSuperfetch

    A value of 1 prefetches boot processes, 2 prefetches applications and 3 is for both.
     
    Squallff8aus, Jun 3, 2007
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  8. Charr

    Charr Notebook Deity

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    LOL - My PNY Attache is the crappiest piece of hardware I have ever owned. I got it free with an instant rebate at BestBuys one time. The case was destroyed easily, and I run it naked now. It is made of a POS Toshiba flash module and another POS Toshiba memory controller. Transfer rates are slow - it takes forever to get stuff on or off the drive. If you want a real benefit from ReadyBoost, get a real piece of hardware.
     
    Charr, Jun 3, 2007
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