Vista ReadyBoost Compatible Devices List!!!

This site has user tested list of compatible ReadyBoost devices.
Either it be USB Flash Drive, SD card, Memory Sticks,Compact flash..etc...
All is on the site!!!

This should be stickied!!

http://www.grantgibson.co.uk/misc/readyboost/
have fun!

 

nice list!

i use just a simple no.name 1gig usb flash drive, any thing over this size is just a waste of $ simple vista would block other usage (access) on the ready-boost drive once it defines so. Also if u have dual boot, make sure that u remove the drive when booting up xp (or whatever) - ONLY use it for ready.boost with vista

my personal 2 cents regarding the ready-boost

cheers ...

 

"vista would block other usage (access) on the ready-boost drive once it defines so."

What do you mean? Ideally, you'd want at least the ammount of RAM for your ReadyBoost memory card/stick (ie, 2GB RAM, >=2GB USB Stick). If you have a bigger stick than you need, you can allocate space via the ReadyBoost properties (ie, 2GB RAM, 4GB USB stick, ReadyBoost can be configured to use 3GB, leaving 1GB for normal file storage).

 

i meant exactly that - used a 4gb stick before, assign 2gb for ready.boost, and that was it, u cannot use the other 2gb for anything else

it could be that i missed something, but up until now - nada, the "not.used" area was just being blocked. Tried different set.ups to no avail.

cheers ...

 

Hmmm... I'll have to try it again when I get home. What it appeared to me was that Vista would just write a hidden file of the size specified in the ReadyDrive tab to the stick. I looked at it in Explorer and there was still space available, but now that I think about it, I don't think I actually tried to write a file into the free space.

 

qhn is right. No point in using anything but max capacity for Readyboost.

 

Interesting! Ill have to try this out myself...If that was the case,,ill have to buy a smaller device dedicated for readyboost!

 

Is ready boost a feature on all versions of Vista? I've got a laptop on order, that's got a built in SD slot. Can I use that for the ready boost feature? I'm planning on getting Vista Home Premium.

 

Readyboost is a feature of Windows Vista where you can use a USB Flash Drive, SD, or other compatible Flash Memory components to be used as somewhat a RAM for the system.
It basically gives an increase in performance by using ur Flash Drive as RAM somewhat.

SD cards are compatible and you need to check the model and see if it's within the compatibility list.

 

Just make sure you buy a good brand sd card. And i dont mean over priced Sandisk! They have other popular brands at average price...2gb sd card you can find between 30-40. You really dont need a Ultra Speed sd card. If you looked at the link,,some people with cruzer drives which are "Supposed" to be fast are not! Yes, you can use your sd slot for this feature!!!
I am planning on using the memory stick slot for this feature Since i hardly even use this piece of crap format on my vaio! lol

 

here is another link

http://blogs.msdn.com/tomarcher/archive/2006/06/02/615199.aspx

I am trying to figure out if a camera card other than sd is ready boost.

my camera takes xd cards and im trying to kill two birds with one stone.

 

make sure you turn off uac in user accounts.

You may be right but uac might be whats causing the block. Its a serious problem.

 

done that! no dice - and if one tries to reformat it, one has to go thru the whole set up to get the device to be used as speed.boost again.
stick the device under xp and xp will look at it as some "fragmented" files and ignore the whole disk space
i m opened to any suggestions

cheers ...

 

I dont think XD card will have any problem. I think ultimately vista will use anything that passes the transfer rate and its more then 256mb...

ill be heading over to Fry's Electronics today to pick up my memory stick!

 

qhn -- that is an odd problem -- all my systems running Vista are using large ReadyBoost devices with a few hundred megabytes left free for quick moving files from one system to another, or from a PC to my PS3. No problems writing or reading from the free space. Also, your "fragmented files" seen under XP is very odd. ReadyBoost creates one large file "readyboost.sfcache" that it uses for cache and doesn't effect reading and writing to the rest of the device at all. That one file is all you should see under XP, and it won't effect anything -- XP just ignores it.

Are you running Vista RTM? How much space do you have dedicated to ReadyBoost and how much should be free?

The first thing I would do is reformat the device (FAT32 tends to work better than FAT--NTFS can be a problem if you remove the device without doing a proper removal). Setup ReadyBoost again and tell it to leave 100MB or so free and see if you can write to the device now.

 

ok well i dont see the speed listed for xd cards

i also dont see any xd cards listed.

Now I think xd cards are faster than sd cards just inherently but im not sure and i dont see any on that list.

As soon as I see a xd card is compatible ill buy one because i want to try that out

 

agreed

i can read, and write - but once a write is being made, the ready.boost drive would revert back to normal drive at next boot

correct - but as mentioned above, once it is written to, it would then create some 000 files

yep, happening before under RC2 as well

at the moment i just use the whole 8gigo (4 recognised by vista, and under xp showing the whole 8 as sfcache file)

it is FAT32

i will give ur suggestion a shot

cheers ...