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    Anyone using readyboost?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by nu_D, Dec 10, 2010.

  1. nu_D

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    Considering most of the laptops out there have SD readers and I'm sure everyone has a bunch of SD cards laying around, anyone using readyboost? Or is it a useless feature with modern laptops?
     
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Wouldn't readyboost wear down flash NAND chips pretty quickly? With modern systems going up to 8 GB and 7 using less system resources than Vista, I think readyboost and turbo memory kinda fell outta fashion.
     
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    I bought a 4GB @ 5 bucks and do you think I care about the wear down ?

    It doesn't look like it offer noticeable performance difference but one thing I am very sure is that it reduce my overall system temperature to a point that my noisy/dirty fan stays silence for 95% of the time.
     
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    I just popped in a 2GB SD card I had laying around....not sure if there's any improvement but I'm pretty sure I hear the HDD less.

    Not sure if I will keep it, kind of annoyed by the taskbar....lol
     
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    Well that's 1 less Starbucks latte a month mister! Sheesh it was a joke lol. I got a Vista gaming rig with 8 GB RAM, Core 2 Quad Q9550 and GTX 260 and it's slow as balls..
     
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    If you have enough RAM you wont be accessing the page file at all

    Even though sd cards may ( or may not be in some cases) faster than your hd, they are still painfully slow compared to ram.

    The object is not to use a pagefile as opposed to making in quicker.

    If you are in the sweet spot though that you are using all your ram and frequently hitting that page file it can do something for you.


    nothing will speed your system as much as elimating usage of a page file.

    Your netbook with an atom outperforms your sager x7200 with intel six core if it never accesses a page file.


    I am a wasteful user of ram but when i went from 4gb to 6gb my pagefile usage went from almost none to none.
     
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    I have disabled my page file and readyboost still is caching things.
     
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    SD card is supposed to last like 10 years in ready boost. It helps more for slow 5400 rpm drives. I haven't noticed anything but again i haven't tried boot timer. In MS article it says it took like (these numbers are out of my butt but it'll get the point across) 50s for a 5400rpm drive and with ready boost it went down to 35s. So for 7200rpm drives it did less. Also ready boost can only be used for HDD.

    EDIT hole point of ready boost was really to make boot times and hibernating faster. I use a class 6 SD card with really low latency. Hold on let me test it has .3ms and 18-21MBps Also i got a class 10 but its latency is worse so this class 6 would work better for ready boost.

    EDIT: I can't remember wher ei read it...i think it was in wikipedia and i read the MS article reference


    EDIT: also you can use multiply devices for ready boost. No clue if it helps lol
     
    DCMAKER, Dec 10, 2010
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