readyboost performance?


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I've googled a bit on this topic, but haven't found too much. My laptop has an SD card slot that i'll never do anything with - so i was thinking about buying an 8gb sdhc card and trying to use readyboost with it. using 7077 64bit w/ 4gb ram - so i really don't NEED to do it, but for even a 5% perf. increase would be worth it to me since i'm not using the hardware anyway.

has anyone used it or seen any kind of performance data w/ win7?

matt

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YEah its not even worth it with 4 gigs ram. You can still buy that 8 gig card and have some programs launch from it. That might make them a little faster.

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Probably not, but I'd like to know. I use Photoshop, Flash, and other creative apps that can eat up ram, and do use swap, so it may help a little.

I just can't find much data on Win7's usage of it. Might just spend the $10-20 and see what it does.

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I came across an article on Cnet or some other tech website and it was discussing the latest "fad" with computers...excessive amounts of RAM. I have had 3GB for the past year

and feel even that is overdoing it. Other than video-editing or other "heavy" usage, what gamer or average joe needs 4,6,8, etc GB of RAM? Be happy and merry with 4 my friend.

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well, i'm a content creator so dealing with large photoshop files and editing video and audio isn't really out of the question. :)

agree that for most daily tasks, 3-4 is fine. but when 8 become more affordable, i'll upgrade just because i can. i'm a happy consumer (for as long as i'm employed).

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also you should download and get the official windows 7 RC build 7100

i've got it - but i don't have time to install it and reinstall all of my apps. i know a 7077 to 7100 upgrade is allowed, but don't know if i want to risk that.

EDIT: Can you even use SD cards for readyboost?

I think you can - any external storage should work if it's fast enough. vista used to ask me with my external harddrives, not just usb sticks.

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it doesnt matter if they are just fast enough, they have to be designed for it in order to really work, vista used to ask me about my 5thgen ipod to but when i got the currage to try it it told me it wouldnt work.

Readyboost was intended for highspeed USB STICKS not SD CARDS

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it doesnt matter if they are just fast enough, they have to be designed for it in order to really work, vista used to ask me about my 5thgen ipod to but when i got the currage to try it it told me it wouldnt work.

Readyboost was intended for highspeed USB STICKS not SD CARDS

It works really well on high speed sd cards also. I have used it with sd cards before.

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If you get a high speed SD card (doesn't have to be 8 gigs, one of the 4GB Extreme series of Sandisk (as fast as possible)) it will help. I've read about people having their boot times cut in half by using Readyboost etc...

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While lots of RAM is beneficial, ReadyBoost works by taking some information away from the Pagefile system and I bit like Superfetch, it puts the most common items onto the memory stick. So for booting up for instance, it will be faster because your hard drive will be copying information to memory anyways, but the memory stick will be doing the same thing.

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"This device cannot be used for ReadyBoost. ReadyBoot is not enabled because the system disk is fast enough...."

So no readyboost for me? :(

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"This device cannot be used for ReadyBoost. ReadyBoot is not enabled because the system disk is fast enough...."

So no readyboost for me? :(

I tried this on Vista and it worked. I haven't tried it on Windows 7 yet, but I'm sure it will still work.

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