Hi all
What's the difference between a ReadyBoost - Compliant Flash Drive and a non
- compliant flash drive.
And wil a non - compliant flash drive work with vista if so will the
compliant one work the same or better?
I have a Acer TM6410 Laptop with:
-Core 2 Duo T5500 1.66GHz
-2GB Ram Dual-Channel DDR2 533MHz
-120GB SATA HDD

Thanks,

"Master P" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
newsC50DFD5-8B88-44AC-97D7-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi all
> What's the difference between a ReadyBoost - Compliant Flash Drive and a
> non
> - compliant flash drive.
> And wil a non - compliant flash drive work with vista if so will the
> compliant one work the same or better?
> I have a Acer TM6410 Laptop with:
> -Core 2 Duo T5500 1.66GHz
> -2GB Ram Dual-Channel DDR2 533MHz
> -120GB SATA HDD

Readyboost allows Vista to use the memory stick as a swap space. Vista
compliant drives are very fast.

Non Readyboost drives will work fine for storing files/etc, but can't be
used for swap.

Hi,

> What's the difference between a ReadyBoost - Compliant Flash Drive and a
> non
> - compliant flash drive.

The read/write speed. It must be very fast to be used for ReadyBoost. The
minimum listed by Microsoft is "Flash storage devices must perform at 2.5
MB/s for random 4-K reads and 1.75 MB/s for random 512-K writes"

> And wil a non - compliant flash drive work with vista if so will the
> compliant one work the same or better?

A compliant one is simply faster. Non-compliant ones will still work at
their rated speed.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Master P" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
newsC50DFD5-8B88-44AC-97D7-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi all
> I have a Acer TM6410 Laptop with:
> -Core 2 Duo T5500 1.66GHz
> -2GB Ram Dual-Channel DDR2 533MHz
> -120GB SATA HDD
>
> Thanks,