ReadyBoost

Craig321 · 11 May 2007 at 03:39

Hi,
I just wondered if ReadyBoost will work with any old USB pen drive? Or does it need to be a specific type?

Thanks,
Craig.

Craig321 · 11 May 2007 at 14:53

Final8y said:
Plug it in & find out.
Vista will tell you.

I would, but I don't have Vista or the stick yet

optimus said:
Look it up on the USB pens manufacture website.

I think its mainly the newer ones which work.

Will do

. Thanks.

gareth170 said:
the readyboot will work with any USB2 pen drives.. it will not work with USB1 pen drive...

note: some USB2 pen drives are faster then others..

I'm guessing all USB 2 pen sticks will work with ReadyBoost, but as NathanE says: they'd need to be optimized for random access rather than sequential for the best performance.

I just found a 1GB Corsair Turbo Flash USB2 'Designed for Windows Vista Ready Boost' for £14. A bit expensive for a 1GB though.

Craig321 · 11 May 2007 at 15:00

Anyone got any idea if this will work well?:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-121-CS&groupid=701&catid=137&subcat=207

EDIT

Also just found a 4GB for £30 (fairly good price for 4GB as well) that actually says ReadyBoost in the title so I'm guessing it's optimised to be best with Vista ReadyBoost.

Craig321 · 11 May 2007 at 15:22

scooby555t said:
corsair voyger drives work

Cool, thanks

& they look indestructible... and waterproof!

According to this page: http://www.corsairmemory.com/corsair/flash_memory.html#fv it's only the GT versions that are ReadyBoost compatible.

No harm in going for a £34 4GB Corsair GT

The Flash Voyager has been shown laundered, baked, frozen, boiled, dropped, and even run over by a SUV in many third party reviews. After all the punishment it receives, the drive continues to work.

Nice to know I can drop it in a pot of boiling water by mistake or leave it in the freezer by accident & it'll still work

Craig321 · 11 May 2007 at 17:32

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

A huge database of readyboost compatible drives. HTH

Nice, thanks very much Aphex.

brendy said:
it is picky, i plugged my fujifilm s9500 camera in to download the pics off the cf card, readyboost said nope not fast enough, also had a crap old memory stick and it said ok so its a bit of a lottery really.

When you plug a USB drive in does Vista look at it and then give an option for ReadyBoost (e.g. "Enable ReadyBoost" in the autoplay menu or something)?

Craig321 · 11 May 2007 at 20:58

ReadyBoost is used instead of using your hard drive. So it avoids copying etc. being slow when paging.

Craig321 · 12 May 2007 at 00:57

sid said:
Using the 512mb corsair voyager drive for a month now,

Since my pc is only a MCE one, I can't say i've noticed any serious perf increases tbh. but the drive was only 8 quid so what the hell.

Toms hardware did some benchies and most improvement was on pcs with 512mb and 1gb of ram.

sid

I'm going to be buying a 4GB flash drive for college soon, so I thought I may as well buy a ReadyBoost compatible one... even if it doesn't make much difference

Craig321 · 12 May 2007 at 14:05

gareth170 said:
using ReadyBoost does improve the performance..

Yea, but some people have been saying not much difference... ?

Craig321 · 12 May 2007 at 14:48

Sounds pretty good

I shall definitely be going for a nice fast compatible ReadyBoost stick for when I get Vista

Craig321 · 15 May 2007 at 00:45

Awww my thread has been hijacked by an argument

Craig321 · 17 May 2007 at 15:35

The Gizmo Jr is tempting, it's so small!

But I'd rather performance over size... what's faster? The Corsair red rubbery Voyager GT or the Crucial Gizmo Jr ?

Thanks,
Craig.