Readyboost...?

[Beck]

I thought I would try out readyboost to see if it made any difference as
many people state.
Using a USB2 card reader and a Sandisk 1Gb card (made for nintendo wii).
System already has 1Gb memory.

I inserted the card into card reader and readyboost option was there. It
recommended I allocate 870mb for readyboost so I accepted that. I have had
no errors or anything so it seems to have installed fine.

Thing is I am not noticing any difference on my laptop. The first thing I
expected to happen was maybe Windows Mail would open a little faster as when
I open it it takes up to 30 seconds to sort itself out and load folders, but
there is no difference at all.

Am I misunderstanding the point of readyboost? Does it not work for
programs?

 

[Richard Urban]

Readyboost caches code, just as your pagefile does, but allows faster access
to that code - when used a second time. After you open Windows Mail and use
it for about 5 minutes, close it down. Then reopen Windows Mail. See how
much faster it is the second time. The code is taken from the readyboost
cache instead of from the pagefile.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Beck]

Readyboost caches code, just as your pagefile does, but allows faster
access to that code - when used a second time. After you open Windows Mail
and use it for about 5 minutes, close it down. Then reopen Windows Mail.
See how much faster it is the second time. The code is taken from the
readyboost cache instead of from the pagefile.

After leaving it a short while, windows mail is slightly faster on opening
but not enough to justify the loss of the use of an SD card. From what I
can see it is really not worth it. Thanks for the guidance though.

 

[gls858]

I thought I would try out readyboost to see if it made any difference as
many people state.
Using a USB2 card reader and a Sandisk 1Gb card (made for nintendo wii).
System already has 1Gb memory.

I inserted the card into card reader and readyboost option was there.
It recommended I allocate 870mb for readyboost so I accepted that. I
have had no errors or anything so it seems to have installed fine.

Thing is I am not noticing any difference on my laptop. The first thing
I expected to happen was maybe Windows Mail would open a little faster
as when I open it it takes up to 30 seconds to sort itself out and load
folders, but there is no difference at all.

Am I misunderstanding the point of readyboost? Does it not work for
programs?

Try this link for info on readyboost and superfetch
watch for line wrap on the URL

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01/31/windows-vista-superfetch-and-readyboostanalyzed/

gls858

 

[Paul Smith]

It makes its biggest difference on low-memory machines, say 512MB then it
can half application loading times.

On a system of 1GB is more around the 20% mark unless you're doing something
heavy.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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[vidguide]

It makes its biggest difference on low-memory machines, say 512MB then it
can half application loading times.

On a system of 1GB is more around the 20% mark unless you're doing something
heavy.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.http://www.windowsresource.net/

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You've probably also got to factor in the speed of your SD Card/
Reader .. While it obviously passes the Vista speed test, exactly how
fast is required for this test,and is it a great deal faster than,
say, your HDD? If its not hugely faster, its obviously not going to
make a huge deal of difference, except when your IDE/SATA system is
being overloaded with thruput, but your USB isnt, then it might make a
difference.

You'd want to be using one of the high speed SD cards, or 100X USB
drives to see a major difference