Readyboost

Big Kev · 7 Oct 2006 at 22:00

I've got RC2 loaded on an old Abit NF7-S Ver 2, 1G Corsair PC3200 and want to take advantage of Readyboost, but need to know which ones are compatible.

Has anyone actually tried these and are they worth it?

modo77 · 8 Oct 2006 at 10:30

Any flash drive should be compatable, and it does speed things up a bit.

Uhtred · 8 Oct 2006 at 10:51

256mb formated is the smallest you can use i think?

Tom|Nbk · 8 Oct 2006 at 12:35

Im using a kingston data traveler 1 which is 1GB and this is compatible it was about 15 quid to buy aswell

iMacMart · 8 Oct 2006 at 15:18

modo77 said:
Any flash drive should be compatable, and it does speed things up a bit.

Don't think ALL are tbh I have a 1gb stick and its not?

"This advice does not have the required performance characteristics for use in speeding up your system"

riddlermarc · 8 Oct 2006 at 15:23

I'm using a shiny 1Gb LG one bought from a main competitor a few months ago, works fine

modo77 · 8 Oct 2006 at 16:47

tweakinfreak said:
Don't think ALL are tbh I have a 1gb stick and its not?

"This advice does not have the required performance characteristics for use in speeding up your system"

Is that one USB1.1?

killer_uk · 8 Oct 2006 at 17:03

"The USB memory device must meet certain performance and storage characteristics (2.5MB/sec throughput for 4K random reads and 1.75MB/sec throughput for 512K random writes; 64 MB to 8 GB of free space; 256 MB of overall storage or more)"

iMacMart · 8 Oct 2006 at 17:16

modo77 said:
Is that one USB1.1?

TBH I'm not sure had it for over 1 year and all info rubbed off

Big Kev · 11 Oct 2006 at 18:06

I got my hands on a SanDisk Cruzer Micro 2GB and it works perfectly.

iMacMart · 11 Oct 2006 at 21:12

Big Kev said:
I got my hands on a SanDisk Cruzer Micro 2GB and it works perfectly.

Notice the difference Kev??

Thinking of the OCZ 2gb stick I saw the other day, has good read/write spped?

Big Kev · 11 Oct 2006 at 21:29

tweakinfreak said:
Notice the difference Kev??

Thinking of the OCZ 2gb stick I saw the other day, has good read/write spped?

To tell the truth, I've not noticed a huge difference, unraring was a bit quicker, but I should notice more over the next few days.

I'd prefer to upgrade from 1gb to 2gb myself, but finances and my doubts about my NF7-S being able to cope with the extra memory made me take the cheaper route.

iMacMart · 11 Oct 2006 at 21:41

I see mate, be sure to drop us your thoughts back please after a few days

Tom|Nbk · 11 Oct 2006 at 22:46

tweakinfreak said:
Don't think ALL are tbh I have a 1gb stick and its not?

"This advice does not have the required performance characteristics for use in speeding up your system"

Try copying a few large files back and from the stick, then see if you can enable it.

This should come in very handy anyone looking to buy a memory stick for readyboost

http://www.grantgibson.co.uk/misc/readyboost/

its a compiled list of all readyboost compatible flash cards etc that has been compiled from various Vista users.

southy1978 · 11 Oct 2006 at 23:07

Would a normal compact flash card in a usb2 card reader be able to make use of this? Reason being i have a sandisk extreme III 4gb on the way, would be good to see what a difference it makes

tomos · 23 Oct 2006 at 19:24

i have an 8gig flash pen i bought off the bay a while ago and am hoping that will work. not using it for much at the mo.

will give that a go when i install vista eventually.

5tephen · 23 Oct 2006 at 23:55

Why should plugging in a pen drive that gets 3-4Mb/s transfer rate give so much extra performance than using an existing hard drive that can transfer anything from 20 - 100Mb/s? I guess I'll have to do a bit of reading on ReadyBoost as some people do notice a good improvement.

sirlemonhead · 23 Oct 2006 at 23:59

It's the seek time that makes the improvement. Those flash drives may have a low transfer rate, but their seek time is near instant (I think? lower than a hard drive for sure

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Handy for quick loading of smaller files i'd imagine. Operating system DLL files and whatnot.

5tephen · 24 Oct 2006 at 00:04

Well I just done a bit of reading like I said I would do

"Q: Aren't Hard Disks faster than flash? My HDD has 80MB/sec throughput.
A: Hard drives are great for large sequential I/O. For those situations, ReadyBoost gets out of the way. We concentrate on improving the performance of small, random I/Os, like paging to and from disk."

This more than covers what anyone would need to know about ReadyBoost.

Energize · 24 Oct 2006 at 00:47

I-ram tbh.