[temeteus82]

Hey since I got Vista about a week ago and I've been wondering how much would 1Gb ReadyBoost USB drive would speed up my system? Since I have only 1Gb of RAM installed....

[EZero]

Tomshardware did a benchmark awhile ago when vista came out. They actually tested quite a few mid range systems with varying amounts of ram with Readyboost.

Anyways, here is the link for your reading pleasure. http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01/...zed/index.html

[temeteus82]

Thanks

[Alistair]

All I know is my laptop seems much slower when using a SD card for ReadyBoost instead of just swapping off my HDD... The superfetch however works wonders on my main system.

[Erroneus]

If using readyboost, make sure you use a real fast USB pen, like adata pd7 or corsair voyager GT.

If using slow usb pens or mem cards, readyboost can actually slow down the machine in some situations.

[temeteus82]

Originally Posted by Erroneus

If using readyboost, make sure you use a real fast USB pen, like adata pd7 or corsair voyager GT.

If using slow usb pens or mem cards, readyboost can actually slow down the machine in some situations.

I got A-data's model in order. Model number : AP07001G200SV
It should be read 30MB/s and 20MB/s write....

[EDIT] It's that PD7

[Judas]

Readyboost on several of the high speed dual channel READYBOOST ready OCZ models (2gb - 8gb) have all produced slower results for me....

[The_Neon_Cowboy]

basically nothing compairs to good old fashioned ram but you can pick
say up a 1GB cosairturbocache ready drive for like $20 though

it all still questionable though, and many reccomend 2X your physical ram

Originally Posted by Judas

Readyboost on several of the high speed dual channel READYBOOST ready OCZ models (2gb - 8gb) have all produced slower results for me....

then again your useing raid aren't ya?

[temeteus82]

paid 17€ of that A-data Neon and I think that's good deal

[Judas]

Yeah i blame it on being spoiled with raid 0 4x drives

[ChaosMinionX]

Works well for me with an 4GB Flash Voyager GT..set the entire drive to ReadyBoost, and I have 4GB of Ram.

[Vikingod]

I think the rumor is that Vista SP1 is going to make some big improvements to readyboost. There may be something in the News section with details.

[ChaosMinionX]

Originally Posted by Vikingod

I think the rumor is that Vista SP1 is going to make some big improvements to readyboost. There may be something in the News section with details.

Yep SP1 has quite a few fixes for ReadyBoost I believe, they really want the feature to be used

[temeteus82]

now the A-Data PD7 is in use and I say that my system boots faster and programs that I use often like FF, TB and some games are loading much faster

[josh2thad]

TBH i cant really tell, i have an 8GB drive, but ive also already got 4 GB of DDR2 888 Sooo..

[MIG-31]

Being new to Vista i was going to ask what this readyboost thing actually does in another thread..

But thanks guys for the replies as you have answered my main question...time to look around for a drive to set this up in the next couple of months.

[temeteus82]

Mig get the A-data's 2 gig model its around 25€ in here ... and I think that I should have that in the first place :P

[MIG-31]

I have borrowed of budy a PNY Tech Attache pro which is enhanced for Vista readyboost. (2GB)

25mb/s write and 29mb/s read.... my pc boots up much quicker now and im sure the is some performance increase.So ill see over the next few days.