Vista & flash drive

clone · 14 Mar 2007 at 13:08

Should i buy a flash drive for my vista upgrade or dont bother as i have 2gb of ram already.

Thank`s.

Dureth · 14 Mar 2007 at 14:02

Even with 2GB of RAM I find that having a 1GB flash drive in the back of my PC does help application startup times. As they only cost £10 you might as well get one.

Cosimo · 14 Mar 2007 at 15:08

Same here, application start-up times are very short.

ShakenNstirred · 14 Mar 2007 at 16:21

what flash drives are known to work with readyboost?

Energize · 14 Mar 2007 at 16:52

i-ram owns readyboost.

ShakenNstirred · 14 Mar 2007 at 17:13

Energize said:
i-ram owns readyboost.

was thinking of something a little cheaper

clone · 14 Mar 2007 at 17:53

Got me a Corsair TurboFlash 1GB USB2.0 Vista ReadyBoost to try.

Meatball · 14 Mar 2007 at 19:37

clone said:
Got me a Corsair TurboFlash 1GB USB2.0 Vista ReadyBoost to try.

Let us know how it goes

I'm tempted to buy a 2Gb Flash drive purely for readyboost use

JaseUK · 14 Mar 2007 at 21:05

Got me one of these the 4gb one: -

http://www.peakhardware.com.tw/products/productdetail.asp?Id=151&A=2&B=5&C=

LanceCrossfire · 14 Mar 2007 at 21:06

I got a 1gb PNY attache for £8 purley for readyboost and its true applications load up faster most noticable media centre, but bar that i have seen no difference in stuff like fps, rendering times etc...

bodybag · 14 Mar 2007 at 22:22

ok, just ordered a corsair 1gb from OC......not expecting much of an increase.....

but all improvements help...

Rincewind · 14 Mar 2007 at 23:45

my pny attache won't work as a readyboost drive, it said it doesn't meet spec.

bodybag · 14 Mar 2007 at 23:49

Rincewind said:
my pny attache won't work as a readyboost drive, it said it doesn't meet spec.

Yep u need a readyboost flashdrive......as far as i can can tell....not just any usb2 flash drive. I can see the manufacturers cashing in on this!

pinkaardvark · 15 Mar 2007 at 03:09

got a kingston 2gb readyboost branded one the other day for £13.99 and it does seem to help. Although nvidia released a SATA driver on windows update the same day so that may have helped me also

Eddie182 · 15 Mar 2007 at 09:34

I got myself a "Corsair TurboFlash 1GB USB2.0 Vista ReadyBoost" drive as well. Certainly seems to speed things up slightly, but noticeably, compared to just having the RAM. And as said above, they only cost a few quid so it doesn't hurt to get one anyway.

Petzl · 16 Mar 2007 at 20:00

I called OCUK with a querie and whilst they were on the phone i asked them a question about ram as i have had problems with photoshop saying "I dont have enough memory to perform this operation" I got 2 gig of pc2 8500 1066mhz and was only working with files of a few meg. I was just ready to buy another 2gig at almost 200quid when OCUK suggested trying the 1g corsair turboflash drive @ £15.26. Hats of to OCUK for NOT just taking my money. I will be playing with photoshop to see if the problem persists and going by this thread, many folk seem to have noticed drastic improvements

bodybag · 16 Mar 2007 at 21:50

I got my cosair 1GB readyboost today, I have noticed a speed up, overall I'm a happy chappy

clone · 16 Mar 2007 at 22:02

bodybag said:
I got my cosair 1GB readyboost today, I have noticed a speed up, overall I'm a happy chappy

Good new`s ive got one as well to try

FirebarUK · 16 Mar 2007 at 22:22

It doesn't HAVE to be readyboost certified, just needs to meet certain speed requirements for read/write operations.

ShakenNstirred · 23 Mar 2007 at 15:22

just got hold of a 1gig sandisk(cruzer flashdrive) to test as a readyboost drive and it works fine.
£9.99 from an office suppy store