Vista Ready... things?

Ok, so I've been trying to find out more about the various Ready... things that Vista can do with the Intel "Turbo Memory" and flash drives and such. But I haven't really been able to find anything.

So anyone use any of it and find any performance gains worth the $35 of the Intel module?

I figure if it actually does help improve performance then $35 over the lifetime of my laptop is a drop in the bucket.


So any opins on this subject? Thanks!

::EDIT:: If it makes any difference I do plan on installing 2gb+ of ram (depending on what prices do I may go for 4gb) and a 7200rpm hard drive into the system. I figure if I actually do get 4gb and the drive it'll kind of defeat the purpose of it, but with 2gb and how much memory Vista uses it may help?

 

With 2GB memory, Readyboost will have little to no noticeable effect. 2GB of memory is good enough to run Vista with ease.

You will likely not need 4GB memory since 2GB memory will more than suffice most users needs...but if you end up needing all 4GB memory, then option for Vista Ultimate 64-bit. A 32-bit OS can only recognize like 3.2GB or so GB of memory.

 

Readyboost basically uses flash drive for pagefile or prefetch....but i didn't find any noticeable boost in performance...guess ready is not ready yet

 

Sounds like it would help out nicely for gaming? Or did they improve how the main app running is put into main memory?

 

Readyboost will help you to load applications slightly faster..now this 'slightly' is really slightly...

Wintersfury...i didnt find any speeding of loading of apps...i opened & closed several applications & observed the timing...The timing is in milliseconds so it doesn't really matter

Basically It works on the principle that flash drives are faster than hard drives.

 

It's basically like adding extra RAM to your system. But, as vaio said, 2 GB is plenty even for Vista. You should be just fine.

 

Thanks guys, I guess I'll go get me some Burritos with the $ instead. Sounds like it would be better invested in paying for my lunch than in that

 

No it is NOT like adding extra RAM. That is a common misconception. It is basically a fast cache for the hard drive.

Gary

 

thats what i am trying to tell them... readyboost enhances cache feature ...its not like RAM...it uses flash drive for prefetch as they are damn faster than hard drives.

Thanks ScuderiaConchiglia

 

Flash drives are not faster than hard drives. Their read performance is comparable, and the write performance is much slower. The only benefit they have is faster seek times, so for many small files, they might be a little faster when reading.

As far as readyboost, it's not worth anything unless you have 1GB of RAM or less. Any more than that, and Vista uses the much faster RAM for this sort of caching. Readyboost is "ready", it's just not really as good of an idea as it sounds like.