Lenovo Turbo Cache

anyone seen a positive improvement with the turbo memory versus not having it? i have 2 friends who say it does nothing on XP or vista... can anyone confirm?

I was offered i and it was only like 30$. i said nay cause of what my friends had said. what do you all think?

 

I have it. What a waste of $50! If you plan on getting at least 2GB of ram, there is no need for it; there will be no noticeable difference.

[Edit] Also, Turbo Memory is not supported on XP, only Vista.

 

The biggest improvement for me is the hybrid hard disk feature in Vista. The hard drive can turn off when on battery if it's not being immediately used; my battery drains much slower doing this.

And perhaps it's just me, but startup seemed noticeably slower when it was turned off.

 

i see. thanks alot
i'll be running XP so i guess its good i didn't get it.
The first time i called the dude i spoke to was like OMG GET IT IS AMAZING... Then when i actually ordered the person wasn't so enthused so i didn't bother. Glad i didn't.

 

yeah running XP it becomes nothing more than a permanent 512MB flash drive that's really really fast-- because that's all Readyboost was made from.
Enjoy your new laptop!

 

I believe that come later this month, Intel will release a 2GB turbo cache to compliment their new Montevina chipset. This would probably result in a more substantial gains (if only in battery life). I can't see why it wouldn't be usable on the current generation of chipsets, either.

 

I have my 1GB turbo boost memory set to act only as a boot helper.

I can't seem to get it to let me set the size of the partioning. Intels software on this one sucks, royally.

But from cold boot it has made a noticeable improvement. Thing is, when you try it, you have to give it a few boots to make a difference, just like pre-cache it doesn't work first time out of the gate, it has to learn what boots and what doesn't.

If intel releases a 2GB version, I will probably get that, since they have made lots of improvements to flash since they made this series.

 

I think Intel set this first generation chips up to partition at only 512, whether you use for Readyboost or Turbocache I dont think you can get more than 512 on each no matter what way you set it up. I would imagine that when better code comes out to support the memory that it will be used more efficiently. ECC memory definetely has its benefits.

 

I believe that you can only enable/disable either ReadyBoost or ReadDrive partitions. The glorious Intel drivers won't let you allocate all of the drive to either function. So you still may be inadvertently disabling 512MB of your drive. Anandtech has reported on this. Just an FYI, since the software is utterly awful.

 

is something that is associated with your processor or with windows readyboost?