Readyboost (again)

[Brian Wescombe]

OK, I tried a high-speed SD card in my card reader. The device again shows
that it doesn't meet the necessary speed requirements for use as a
performance booster. This is a '133x' rated card I think.
Are there any known memory sticks/makes of card that will work with
ReadyBoost?

 

[Guest]

the card should work, but you probably need a new card reader. I've tried
several brands of sd cards and all of them worked, even though none of them
were labeled as "high speed".

 

[Gary Mount]

I stuck in a 1 GB memory stick I bought several months ago from Costco and
it worked, which surprised me because it was not very expensive.

There is some good information about ReadyBoost here...
http://blogs.msdn.com/tomarcher/archive/2006/06/02/615199.aspx

And in that article you will find something similar to your 133x rated card
reference.

"Q: My device says 12MB/sec (or 133x or something else) on the package but
windows says that it isn't fast enough to use as a ReadyBoost device... why?
A: Two possible reasons:
The numbers measure sequential performance and we measure random. We've seen
devices that have great sequential perf, but horrible random
The performance isn't consistantly fast across the entire device. Some
devices have 128M of lightning fast flash and the rest of the device is
really slow. This is fine for some applications but not ReadyBoost."

 

[Brian Wescombe]

I stuck in a 1 GB memory stick I bought several months ago from Costco and
it worked, which surprised me because it was not very expensive.

What make is your memory stick??
Thanks