Windows 7 & ReadyBoost

and for most applications, this won't matter as they're never coded in a way where the disk is that fast. most apps are designed with the bottlenecks in mind. win7 is the first os where they considered ssds as new high end low-bottleneck situation.

which is proven by quite some tests on os installations on ram disks which don't show much more performance over f.e. an intel ssd (they show some impressive numbers, but not much more real life performance).

i don't like such a layer not because of the performance (which is why i like superfetch f.e.), but because one has to rely 100% on some funky system-hacking code from some tiny company you know nothing about it's reliability on writing stable code. something I'd NEVER do. but your reliability and trust ability needs might be lower than mine.

 

Just a quick question, because there are so many opinions about ReadyBoost: I am planning to get a 8 gb SDHC in my t61p for backups, I won't use all of the storage (I guess). Would it be a good idea to give 1 or 2 gb to ReadyBoost?

cheers

 

also I have 4 gb ram installed on the t61p

 

Two fold issue with RB and backup files. Once you put RB in then the card is no longer safely removable without dismount first. Also if you use the SHDC drive regularly you will be using the drive bandwidth for other than RB.........

 

I use t61p with 4gb ram and 8gb sdhc. I think there's no measurable performance boost to start application. Windows shutdown slightly fast.

 

But would you guys reserve 1gb of that 8gb for RB anyway?

 

Unused SDHC free space is wasted space. Just like ram, there's no harm to have more Readyboost memory.