ReadyBoost with internal minicard SSD.

My understanding is the typical fullscale (ie not netbook) Montevina notebook has at least 2 mini PCIe slots. One for wi-fi cards, and another for WWAN which can also be used for Turbo memory cards. If I were to get a WWAN card I would want to get a ExpressCard one so it can be portable to another machine... Also, I've heard on most accounts that intel Turbo memory actually slows down your computer, so i don't want to use it for that. Probably because Intel specific implementations use very slow Flash memory in small amounts, and far more expensive than they should be...

On the other hand, I'm seeing lots of mini-PCIe SSD drives, some in the 64GB range, others 128GB with read/writes of 150/100MBs and very low latencies. What if you stuck one of those cards in those slots? Would the notebook treat the card as another storage device, or only specialized again like turbo memory? If just another "removable storage device" Perhaps transfering the pagefile onto that would be good, (I believe pagefiles are still necessary in notebooks, even with lots of RAM) and enabling readyboost? Can you use the remaining space for short term storage, as well? (I'm guessing around 48GB or so of it)

Would this make your notebook faster?

 

I created a 300mb partition on my ssd and dedicated it to readyboost and couldn't discern any performance gains through various benchmarks, pcmark vantage, pc pitstop, passmark, etc.

THIS might work

BRAIDWOOD

 

Try a program called eboostr. It helped improve my netbook performance significantly.

 

You would be better off just getting an SSD.

 

Touche.

10 char.

 

many of those 'mini pci-e' ssd cards work on the USB connection that is part of the pci-e buss. Additionally, some laptop bios are locked down so that you can only use cards from the manufacturer of the laptop. Thirdly, a lot of the mini pci-e ssd cards are designed to go into specific netbooks that have modified the 'standard' of mini pci-e and as such, will not work in other machine.

It's hit and miss to find something that will work.

 

Mini PCIe SSD uses proprietary connection although physically it uses Mini PCIe slot. And AFAIK it also doesn't use the USB channel in the Mini PCIe slot. At least that's what I've concluded since I had tried putting the Mini PCIe SSD from my Dell Inspiron Mini 9 inside my Dell Studio 17's WWAN slot (which supposed to have USB channel since it works with Sierra Wireless MC8781 which runs through the USB channel inside the Mini PCIe slot) and turned out not working.

 

readyboost is about as good as nothing, don't bother with it unless its the special boost cards you can get in some laptops

 

DON'T do it.
most mini pci-e SSD's are worse then most SSD. why would you want readyboost on a slower device? it will make your system slower. not faster. and it will also consume more power.
unless you have a very good and absurdly expensive mini pci-e SSD don't wast your time trying. also note that some notebooks can't recognize mini pci-e SSD's in their mini pci-e slots.
anyway eboostr is a very good app.

 

Well, a SSD is faster than the HDD on his netbook thus caching data on SSD will make a huge difference.