Readyboost, recommended sticks?

IIRC Vista does actually check that the USB stick can operate with Readyboost.

I have Viking 2Gb USB pen and it passed the test even though it doesn't have certified for Vista ready boost on it.
 
Nahema said:
What about ipods? I don't use all the space on my nano mark II.
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Try it and see,

Just to point out to anyone who tries to get an idea, he is talking about the flash drive ipods not hard drive models.

(been asked about this)
 
nexus450 said:
Most Flash drives work (above 256MB) even if Vista says it wont, like mine for some reason Vista doesn't know how fast it is, but there is a way to force Vista to use the Flash drive regardless of its speed (not recommended for slow ones and it has to be in a USB 2.0 slot)!

http://www.thehotfix.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=9621

check it out, it works!!
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Like I said, there's no technical reason for them limiting it :) All memory sticks have more or less the same seek time of a couple microseconds and that's all that ReadyBoost exploits - it doesn't care about throughput. It's just marketing so folks like Corsair can sell more sticks.
 
I bought one of the Corsair Flash Voyagers with my Vista copy from here ... but Vista says its not fast enough ...

The blurb on the net says it checks the speed and wont use the stick if it believes it would slow the system down ... so yes you can use any stick (if you hack it) but vista might not perform like it should with readyboost.

I'm now looking for a readyboost stick too
 
Has anybody had any experience of actually booting an OS from one of these fast sticks?

I'm pretty tempted to get a 4/8GB one and booting say MC2005 from it, no noisy hot hard drive to contend with!

HEADRAT
 
By the way, don't be surprised if Asus/Abit/Gigabyte et al start putting 128 or 256MB's worth of hard-wired flash memory on their high-end motherboards in the near future.
 
Flash memory is about a million times slower than RAM :) It's also not really that much faster than a hard drive (throughput). Flash memory does however have a very low seek time (still not anywhere as low as RAM though) which is why ReadyBoost was developed as a page file store.
 
the-void said:
A million times!?
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ram's latency is in ns - 1 x 10^-9
and as for ram i dont know, if its microseconds then its 1 x 10^-6 which is only a 1000 times slower :)
the hard drive is a million times slower.

bledd. said:
gigabyte i-ram for the win :)


i'm banking on vlite being able to strip vista to under 4gb
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nlite you mean? or vlite for vista :P
 
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