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    will readyboost still speed up a computer with a ssd drive?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by jisaac, Mar 22, 2008.

  1. jisaac

    jisaac Notebook Deity

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    i'm just wondering whether using readyboost with a fast mmc card will speed up a notebook with a 16gb ssd. will there be a smaller difference than if i was using a regular hard drive? or will i infact see a decrease in performance?
    thanks
     
    jisaac, Mar 22, 2008
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  2. redrazor11

    redrazor11 Formerly waterwizard11

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    Probably decrease. SSD's are blazing


    oh, and readyboost is almost never worth it unless you have <1gig of ram imo
     
    redrazor11, Mar 22, 2008
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    powerpack Notebook Prophet

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    Readyboost won't speed up a computer with standard HDD. And with a SSD think about that because readyboost doesn't even work with HDD. In theory faster RA time well it wont even in theory have that. Yea I know wait for Vista SP1 well they got everything else wrong with that so very little faith that readyboost is going to be the one they got correct. People should go put their readyboost with their zip drives and floppy's, oh yea those once served a purpose. Go put it with the RDRAM wait that once worked, put it with it with Windows Millennium edition they are a perfect match.
     
    powerpack, Mar 22, 2008
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  4. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    RDRAM is awesome, I dont know what youre talking about.
    RDRAM pushed 1066Mhz about 4 years before ddr2 got there.

    I have alot of rdram in systems around my house. The bandwidth was nearly 4x the bandwidth of the Pc100/133 of the time.

    I have to agree that readyboost is not a good idea. A standard harddrive is going to be faster than a memory card, so you are going to get no speed advantage.

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Mar 22, 2008
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  5. powerpack

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    I retracted my RDRAM statement along with floppy's and zip, the only useless thing I could think of was WME. I am open to better suggestions on comparison.
     
    powerpack, Mar 22, 2008
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