ReadyBoost

BruceLee · 3 Jun 2007 at 00:08

TheVoice said:
I believe you can do that, yes. You'd just have to ensure the card is fast enough for Vista to use it as a ReadyBoost device.

Thanks, I was doing further research, think you would need a very fast card, think I will just get another stick of RAM considering the prices these days.

Vegetarian · 3 Jun 2007 at 00:34

I have OCZ® Rally2 2GB and readyboost wont work with it which I think is strange as its rated fast!

BeatMaster · 3 Jun 2007 at 09:38

HangTime said:
I'm still not sure what to think of ReadyBoost.

One the one hand, it's cheaper than RAM (especially if you are running high speed memory). However, it's also a lot slower.

Personally I don't think I would actually go out and buy a flash memory device for RB when building a PC. It's basically a substitute for not having enough RAM in the first place.

I can see it being useful for people with less than 2gig RAM who can't easily upgrade their memory cheaply though (e.g. the guy with 1gig DDR above).

I suppose in the long run I might use it though just sticking a random pen drive in rather than actually going out and buying one specifically for it.

You see I would upgrade to 2Gb DDR but with DDR2 settled into the market it doesn't seem to make much sense buying that only to have to upgrade further down the line. I went with the 2Gb Corsair Voyager GT for £17.52 which should hopefully be here on Wednesday and can see if it helps or not.

Will report back

BeatMaster

PikeyPriest · 3 Jun 2007 at 11:33

I've got the 8 Gb Corsair voyager GT

Average read stays around on 31mb/s on hdtach

Burst speed - 31.1 mb/s
random access - 0.8ms
cpu utilisation - 0%
Average read 30.3 mb/s
I think reviews have put the write speed at about mid twenties. Unfortunately no Vista, so i cant readyboost to see if theres a difference

fornowagain · 3 Jun 2007 at 15:40

gareth170 said:
but i don't think you guys are getting what im saying..

for me setting it to raid it runs abit faster then ide sata... only that..

i wasn't saying its faster then having 2 hdds in raid-0 mode....

"Ide sata" sounds like the non AHCI IDE legacy mode, limited to UDMA-6 133MB/s. Maybe connected to the JMicron JMB360 controller on raid its getting the benefit of AHCI SATA II bandwidth? I'd look for a AHCI option for a single drive in the bios, otherwise its no faster than an IDE drive.

Here is a single SATA I drive under AHCI. A tad faster than UDMA-6 in burst, but the average was similar to your RAID value. I bet the single disk burst rate goes well up for your SATA II under AHCI.