ReadyBoost Feature...

[Sly Dog]

I've gotta admit that using ReadyBoost in Ulitmate really does make a
difference.

I'm guessing I could, perhaps, add additional flash devices over time and
link them together as a multi-volume dynamic disk..?

That'd be a hoot, don't you think..?

 

[Lakesidezx]

According to everything I've read, vista will only use one flash device, but
if you figure out how to do otherwise, let us know since I bought up a
handfull of 1GB flash devices that are readyboost ready for $3.50 each and
would be nice to somehow link them all together and fool vista into thinking
they are all one large device.

 

[Dale White]

Other than if you are using a laptop. Why wouldn't you jus buy more RAM ?
http://www.tgdaily.com/2007/02/08/analysis_vista_ready_boost/

 

[Lakesidezx]

I've got 2GB of ram and a 4GB flash device, so in theory the way that I
understand it so far is that I benefit from using the flash device. I don't
add more RAM because I don't care to spend the extra 200 or so dollars to
buy 2 more GB of RAM, although I might do it one day if I have the extra
$200+ to throw away on it, so until then the flash device will suffice, but
would be better if vista would somehow use multiple flash devices then I
could have my 4GB and five 1GB flash devices for a total of 9GB of flash
memory which although slower than real RAM but faster than HDD access.

 

[John Barnett MVP]

Vista only used 'one' flash device for readyboost. If you add another flash
device readyboost ignores it.

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[Dale White]

Interesting, so with 2GB of ram, you're still having performance issues ? Or
are you saying that you're still getting a performance boast with the flash
drive ? I might have to play with my flashdrive and see what I get, but
seeing how the only time I use more than 35% of my ram is when I'm playing
some of the newer games (and even then it's around 75% in use, I'm not sure
where having a flashdrive helps.

 

[David Hearn]

£150 ($300) to completely replace the existing 2x512MB with 2x1GB (I
only have 2 slots) to go from 1GB to 2GB of RAM vs £20 ($40) to buy a
2GB flash drive and dedicate it to ReadyBoost. Okay, I'm not going to
see the same performance increase as getting real RAM, but £150 to get
an extra 1GB isn't worth it for me.

David

 

[Lakesidezx]

No performance issues here with 2GB. If anything there is a noticible boost
in some tasks performance with the readyboost flash plugged in. But
certainly not for many of my commonly use apps and games. I don't expect
readyboost to enhance anything but load performance, which I believe it does
pretty well for common apps like control panel, windows mail, I.E, etc, but
common apps or games that I run on a daily basis, and often times 10+ times
a day I don't really see any performance enhancements with regards to load
times and certainly don't notice any performance enhancement with regards to
loading up vista from dead stop.

All in all, I'd say if someone has a usable flash device laying around, by
all means utilize it, but I don't really think the boost in some performance
(for what Im noticing) is worthwhile to run out and buy a flash device.

Perhaps it gets better with time ;-)

 

[Guest]

Well, some of us, or some of our computers have low RAM limitations. The max
for my kids Dell is 1GB, which it has but I already know it will need a
ReadBoost flash drive to help keep up with them. One is on order.

 

[Guest]

Vista only used 'one' flash device for readyboost. If you add another flash
device readyboost ignores it.

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The developers working with ReadyBoost have stated that using more than one
drive may come in a future update of the ReadyBoost software so it may happen.

 

[ajv]

2gig flash drives works for me with 2 GB RAM it takes up 1.8 gig of the
drive.