readyboost question again

[Debbie Graham]

Okay I have a laptop with 1GB of RAM running Vista Home Basic, what would be
better for me, a 2 or 4 GB flash drive? Would 4GB make a difference more
than a 2 GB? I'm not looking to store any files on it just to use for
readyboost, thanks


Debbie

 

[Charlie42]

Okay I have a laptop with 1GB of RAM running Vista Home Basic, what would
be better for me, a 2 or 4 GB flash drive? Would 4GB make a difference
more than a 2 GB? I'm not looking to store any files on it just to use
for readyboost, thanks

Microsoft recommends using 1 - 3 times your amount of RAM. In my experience,
adding 1GB of ReadyBoost flash memory gives a 1GB RAM laptop a performance
gain, but adding any more doesn't make much of a difference.

If you're not going to use the flash drive for storage, why not just buy
more RAM? Doubling your RAM may cost less than buying 2-4GB of flash memory,
and RAM will certainly perform a lot better than ReadyBoost memory.

Charlie42

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Okay I have a laptop with 1GB of RAM running Vista Home Basic, what would be
better for me, a 2 or 4 GB flash drive? Would 4GB make a difference more
than a 2 GB? I'm not looking to store any files on it just to use for
readyboost, thanks

If it were me, I'd spring for another 1GB of RAM rather than either.
The difference in cost between that and the flash drive is not
enormous, but the improvement in performance would very likely be
significant.

 

[Gary Mount]

Perhaps the OP has all his memory slots filled and adding 1GB means removing
a 512MB module, so ending up with only 1.5 GBytes. Therefore the value may
not be there as compared to buying a flash drive to boost performance.

 

[Debbie Graham]

I can get a 2GB flash drive for 20 some odd dollars. The RAM I'm looking at
is $40.00, that's for 2GB (1GB x2)
I guess getting more RAM would be better if the readyboost thing is just
okay

Debbie

 

[Debbie Graham]

I have 2 512MB sticks now, looking into getting 2 1GB of RAM. I believe the
new RAM will be a bit faster too. Tomorrow I'm having the tech place copy
my old hard drive data to the new one I just got and I will ask them what
the spec's are on the old RAM.

Debbie

Perhaps the OP has all his memory slots filled and adding 1GB means
removing a 512MB module, so ending up with only 1.5 GBytes. Therefore the
value may not be there as compared to buying a flash drive to boost
performance.

 

[Charlie42]

I can get a 2GB flash drive for 20 some odd dollars. The RAM I'm looking
at is $40.00, that's for 2GB (1GB x2)
I guess getting more RAM would be better if the readyboost thing is just
okay

$40 for 2GB is a good offer, I would definitely go with that. ReadyBoost
flash may speed things up a bit on a computer pushed to it's limits, but it
doesn't come close to the performance of real RAM. Data simply isn't
transferred fast enough.

Charlie42

 

[Debbie Graham]

Okay that's what I'll do, is get more RAM, thanks

Debbie