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    X205-S9349 and USB Readyboost

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by Pyx, Dec 2, 2007.

  1. Pyx

    Pyx Newbie

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    Hi All,

    I searched around on the net and couldn't find anything on this.

    Under Performance Information and Tools\Advanced Tools...
    Clicking on "Configure my Windows Readyboot device" doesn't do anything.

    I ran into this after picking up a 4gb USB key for ReadyBoost and was unable to use it since it says a cache was already active for ReadyBoost. I am assuming this is referring to the 387MB NV Cache on the Fujitsu Hybrid drive.

    Anyhow, I already returned the USB key, but was wondering if it is possible to disable the current ReadyBoost Cache under Vista Premium. It says it has to be configured under Group Policy Administrators, and I can't access that, as well as the "Configure ReadyBoost" button listed above doesn't do anything.

    The closest solution I could find was enabling the administrator account through a command line, but when I tried to do this I got an error about not having rights.

    Is the simple answer you need Vista Ultimate to do this or is there a trick to it?

    Thanks for any feedback.
     
    Pyx, Dec 2, 2007
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  2. nji13

    nji13 Notebook Enthusiast

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    The 9349s actually have 1G of memory, for which 512K is committed to readyboost, already installed and active. It is standard on the 9349s and 9359s.

     
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    format13 Notebook Consultant

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    Where does the other 512 go to??? Doesnt seem worth using if only 512 is allocated to ready boost :(
     
    format13, Dec 3, 2007
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    nji13 Notebook Enthusiast

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    512K is committed to Readyboost, the other 512K is committed to Readydrive.

    From my understanding, more then 512K for either of the above returns no benefit. There is of course a lot of ongoing debate how much the 1G turbo memory really helps in Vista. :p

     
    nji13, Dec 3, 2007
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    format13 Notebook Consultant

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    Just read a review about it...they pretty much said it did nothing lol. Guess it is useful to brag to friends about? :rolleyes: :p
     
    format13, Dec 4, 2007
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    Ingvarr Notebook Deity

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    This "review" is based on synthetic tests.

    Since ReadyBoost & ReadyDrive are based on heuristic learning over time of user activities and basic filesystem usage patterns, its pretty obvious it will not help a synthetic benchmark. Unless you will run such benchmark every day, so it will learn of how and that it should boost it.

    Another common mistake of ReadyBoost testers - ReadyBoost won't help unless all RAM is already used (like in heavyweight games). Obviously when they run the generic benchmark on clean system, there is plenty of usable RAM for caching and ReadyBoost will (predictably) be not activated for a given application (benchmarker).
     
    Ingvarr, Dec 4, 2007
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