Best Memory for ReadyBoost

zetec452

zetec452

zetec452

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Hey,

As memory prices are so low I am going to purchase either a USB Pen or SD memory primarily for ready boost.

I'd rather have an SD card as it will be hidden within the inbuilt reader on my laptop.

Obviously the faster the memory the better. But how about size? I would have thought 1 gig would be more than sufficient?

What memory are you using for readyboost?

Jon
 
Oh cmon, sd memory speed is very slow comapred to true ram, true ram usually has a speed of between 5000 mb- 15000mb per second read speed, whats the speed of an SD? 5mb/sec read, 25 on a performance chip? Your hard disk is faster, you might aswell just increase your pagefile...
 
The page file benefits from seek time not throughput. A memory stick would be a better page file store than a hard disk even if it was as slow as 10MB/sec... That's why ReadyBoost was invented :) Although it goes a bit further than just being a page file store... i.e. a Superfetch store.

ReadyBoost will help out any laptop machine as these always have slow hard drives. ReadyBoost can help out memory-constrained desktops, but even a desktop with 4GB can benefit if the constant hard drive activity created by Superfetch starts to cheese you off :p
 
True I suppose, but wont just true ram be better, wit ha disabled pagefile?

Disabled the pagefile on xp since i got 4gb, and everything is so smooth and responsive now :) , no seek times, and 6000 mb/sec read :) .
So fast to shut down a game now, or go into menu of bf2 from *** game itself.

Imo. just save up for an extra stick of ram, especially look @ the one week offer of the geil ram, much more worth it than sd for speedboost imo. ;)


EDIT: ill su for now, ignore the above what i typed, i knwo nothing of how vista uses ram etcetc, im used to good ol xp where on turning off pagefile, hdd usage is almost completly shut down if it comes to ram/cache/pagefile usage, hdd is only for inital load, thats what i'm used to...
Also was to blind to read it was for a lappy, I suppose there extra ram isnt that easy...
 
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My laptop already has 1.5 gig of ram so it is not lacking in that department. A 2 gig 60x SD card is £11.75. Thats cheap.

Running readyboost with my 512mb USB2 pen does make it more responsive. I may just buy a 2Gb pen.
 
Hmm them solid state drives from samsung would be handy here though, wouldn't they :D , contstant 50 ish mb/sec and no seek :D .
Shame we need a few years for them to become affordable and about 5-10 years for them to become a standard.
 
How do you turn readyboost on or do you simply plug the memory adapter in and away you go?
 
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How do you turn readyboost on or do you simply plug the memory adapter in and away you go?
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When you first insert it, you will be given the option to enable readyboost.

if its not fast enough though, it wont enable it.
 
I use one of these....1gb

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