How to "test" ReadyBoost

[Henry]

I have inserted a 2GB SanDisk SD card into this Dell laptop with
Vista Home Premium, which appeared to welcome the additional
capability. I wonder if there is a way to get some objective
benchmarks WITH and WITHOUT ReadyBoost...

Do you know of any low$$ or free benchmarking tools that I can
run with ReadyBoost and without it?

Thanks.

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

I have inserted a 2GB SanDisk SD card into this Dell laptop with Vista Home
Premium, which appeared to welcome the additional capability. I wonder if
there is a way to get some objective benchmarks WITH and WITHOUT
ReadyBoost...

Do you know of any low$$ or free benchmarking tools that I can run with
ReadyBoost and without it?

Well, there is actually benchmarking built into Vista - The Windows
Experience Index. My score for Memory goes up 0.1 to 5.7 after using 2GB of
flash memory on my SanDisk USB flashdrive.

ss.

 

[Henry]

Well, there is actually benchmarking built into Vista - The Windows
Experience Index. My score for Memory goes up 0.1 to 5.7 after using
2GB of flash memory on my SanDisk USB flashdrive.

ss.

In a sense, WEI is a subjective score - Windows is benchmarking
itself. Perhaps a crude objective score would result from timing
boot, or restart.

Surely someone has done proper benchmarking WITH and WITHOUT...

That 2GB SD card added to this laptop cost $20 at Radio Shack.
If it provides a 1% improvement in memory-intensive tasks, it
was a bargain. If it increases problems by 1%, it was a waste.

 

[Sumer Yamaner]

Well, there is actually benchmarking built into Vista - The Windows
Experience Index. My score for Memory goes up 0.1 to 5.7 after using 2GB
of flash memory on my SanDisk USB flashdrive.

ss.

You should be careful when interpreting the WEI score. First of all it is
the lowest of the five tests. So if the disk access is not the bottleneck
you won't have a higher result in WEI with readyboost.
Additionally, as far as I knwo WEI score tests the real HDD access. That
means it won't make a difference with a readyboost enabled drive.
Another point is that readyboost cannot increase the memory throughput (at
least theoretically) because it is designed as a disk cache and not memory
cache.
I am using a 4GB readyboost USB device along with 2*1 GB system memory and
WEI (and its subscores) didin't change.
Is there any general performance increase in the system? Well... I don't
know. I hope so!
I personally would invest in a second HDD to use in a RAID0 configuration to
overcome the disk access bottleneck.

 

[gls858]

I have inserted a 2GB SanDisk SD card into this Dell laptop with Vista
Home Premium, which appeared to welcome the additional capability. I
wonder if there is a way to get some objective benchmarks WITH and
WITHOUT ReadyBoost...

Do you know of any low$$ or free benchmarking tools that I can run with
ReadyBoost and without it?

Thanks.

There are many articles on the net discussing Readyboost

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=performance+++readyboost&btnG=Search

Generally a system with a limited amount of RAM will benefit
somewhat from ReadyBoost while system with large amounts
of RAM see little improvement. It also depends on what type
of work is being done. For me even with just 1 gig of RAM I
saw no significant change in speed. In fact it seemed to
slow down my boot up and shutdown quite a bit.

gls858