Readyboost: how to?

[Matte]

Hi,
I were trying to use the ReadyBoost feature of my Vista Ultimate, but I
couldn't get it to work!
I am using a 4gb USB 2.0 Dikom USB key, this one
http://www.dikom.it/catalogo.aspx?Prod=124 precisely, and Vista is saying it
doesn't have enough speed. Is it normal? I mean, I already tried this and an
old -lost- 1gb usb key and none of them work! Is there some kind of test I
can do to see if it could work or...I don't know what else?

Thanks,
Best.
Matteo.

 

[Spirit]

Yes many drives are not fast enough to use ReadyBoost.

How to set Perfmon to monitor ReadyBoost

http://mindvacant.com/Nuke70_News/article-51--0-0.html

ReadyBoost Drives - Compatible

http://www.grantgibson.co.uk/misc/readyboost/

http://www.activewin.com/reviews/hardware/memory/vista/readyboost.shtml


ReadyBoost Incompatible

http://www.grantgibson.co.uk/misc/readyboost/?status=incompatible

 

[gls858]

Hi,
I were trying to use the ReadyBoost feature of my Vista Ultimate, but I
couldn't get it to work!
I am using a 4gb USB 2.0 Dikom USB key, this one
http://www.dikom.it/catalogo.aspx?Prod=124 precisely, and Vista is
saying it doesn't have enough speed. Is it normal? I mean, I already
tried this and an old -lost- 1gb usb key and none of them work! Is there
some kind of test I can do to see if it could work or...I don't know
what else?

Thanks,
Best.
Matteo.

IMO Ready Boost is a waste of time. Simply marketing Hype. The only time
it seems to improve performance is if you have less than 1 gig of RAM.
If have 1 gig or more the performance boost is negligible. If you really
want to speed things up buy more RAM. Vista seems to like at least 2 gig.

gls858

 

[CMoya]

I have 2GB of RAM. And ReadyBoost (via 2GB SD Card) does indeed help... a
lot. If you run heavy-duty apps like Visual Studio and such, it's definately
noticeable. Everyday use? Perhaps not.

 

[Ike]

Good to know, particularly considering that many report
otherwise. I have a 2GB Core Duo laptop with Home
Premium that works perfectly. But of course I'd like to
speed it up, and have a fast 2GB SD card that ReadyBoost
recognizes. However, when I tried ReadyBoost I saw no
improvement...

Were there some settings or changes you needed to make
to achieve a noticeable improvement?

Thanks!

 

[AJR]

ReadyBoost improvement depends on type of HD activity - non-sequential
read/writes are directed to the ReadyBoost device - sequential to the HD.

ReadyBoost not am adjunct to RAM - it strictly functions as an aid to
Superfetch (XP Prefetch replacement).

Some devices have a LED which gives a visual indication of the device
activity.

 

[CMoya]

I didn't do anything in particular. Just let it use all 2gigs of the SD
Card... which is a fast 20mb/s one.

I notice it particularly when I start the MSDN document viewer (why is that
thing so slow to start?). Visual Studio also starts up faster but perhaps
not so noticeable. And although Windows takes the same amount of time to
boot.... the post logon startup stuff is MUCH faster. I load a lot at
startup (I have Outlook in my startup folder, etc). Without ReadyBoost it
takes twice as long after startup for everything in my desktop to become
usable.

One caveat is that when waking from "standby" my computer is much much
slower for about a minute. This is a documented bug I think (the encryption
key ReadyBoost uses is invalidated and it knocks its head for a little while
trying to read and refill the cache). But I don't mind it.... because after
about a minute everything hums a long just fine.

 

[Travis Crow]

I didn't do anything in particular. Just let it use all 2gigs of the SD
Card... which is a fast 20mb/s one.

I'm thinking of getting an SD card for this purpose, the one I was
looking at has a speed rating of 150x, but I don't know what speed 1x is
so that's kind of lost on me.

The one I'm thinking about is this one
http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=4KZQ as my current one
(in my camera) isn't up to the job. Do you think 150x is fast enough?

Also, given that my laptop has already got 2GB RAM, will it be able to
use all 2GB or will it be restricted to 3.5GB being 32 bit?

 

[Fred B.]

Article on PERFMON ReadyBoost at Mindvacant.com has been moved:
http://mindvacant.com/joomla/index....adyboost-cache-file&catid=42:vista&Itemid=124