Solve : Vista ReadyBoost - worth it, or not??

1.	Solve : Vista ReadyBoost - worth it, or not??
Answer» I have a bunch of USB sticks, memory cards LAYING around, but I've never even thought about trying ReadyBoost. Today, I plugged 2GB SD card, and I enabled ReadyBoost. No experience, yet, since I just set it up. The card sits neatly in my computer front panel, so it doesn't bother me at all. I did some reading, and it appears, that it may help with low amount of RAM, but with my 2GB of RAM, probably it won't have any impact. If you use ReadyBoost, give me some feedback, please.I've tried using ReadyBoost with a 4Gb stick, but it seems to fail, every time. What do you MEAN by "fail"?All I remember reading was that the OS will or can only utilize this if read/write speeds are deemed good enough. This possibly rules out quite a few sticks.That's true, so you need to buy device marked "ReadyBoost compatible". Besides, if you have ReadyBoost service running, and you plug stick in, you'll get a pop-up about boosting your computer performance, IF Windows likes your stick: Quote For a device to be compatible and useful it must conform to the following requirements: * The capacity of the removable media must be at least 256 MB (250 after formatting) * Devices larger than 4 GB will have only 4 GB used for ReadyBoost * The device should have an access time of 1 MS or less * The device must be capable of 2.5 MB/s read speeds for 4 KB random reads spread uniformly across the entire device and 1.75 MB/s write speeds for 512 KB random writes spread uniformly across the device * The device must have at least 235 MB of free space * NTFS, FAT16 and FAT32 are supported * The initial release of ReadyBoost supports one device * The recommended amount of flash memory to use for Windows ReadyBoost acceleration is one to three times the amount of random access memory (RAM) installed in your computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost Broni, I tried it my notebook PC which only has 1GB of RAM and I can't say that I could really tell a difference. So, I stopped using the flash drive that way. BTW, the flash drive is "optimized for ReadyBoost" and my computer immediately prompted me to decide whether I wanted to use it for ReadyBoost the FIRST time I connected it. I might have continued using the flash drive for ReadyBoost even if I could not notice a difference but one problem discouraged me from continuing to use it. When the notebook goes into sleep mode and I later awaken it, Vista then does not recognize the flash drive for ReadyBoost. To re-enable it, I have to remove the flash drive, then re-connect it. I read somewhere that this was a known problem with Vista systems, pre-SP1, but that SP1 was supposed to correct it. But, with my system, SP1 did not resolve that.Thanks for the info, soybean. I don't use sleep mode, so at least I don't have to worry about that issue. I'll keep testing ReadyBoost for couple more DAYS, and see how it goes.

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I have a bunch of USB sticks, memory cards LAYING around, but I've never even thought about trying ReadyBoost.
Today, I plugged 2GB SD card, and I enabled ReadyBoost.
No experience, yet, since I just set it up.
The card sits neatly in my computer front panel, so it doesn't bother me at all.
I did some reading, and it appears, that it may help with low amount of RAM, but with my 2GB of RAM, probably it won't have any impact.

If you use ReadyBoost, give me some feedback, please.I've tried using ReadyBoost with a 4Gb stick, but it seems to fail, every time. What do you MEAN by "fail"?All I remember reading was that the OS will or can only utilize this if read/write speeds are deemed good enough. This possibly rules out quite a few sticks.That's true, so you need to buy device marked "ReadyBoost compatible".
Besides, if you have ReadyBoost service running, and you plug stick in, you'll get a pop-up about boosting your computer performance, IF Windows likes your stick:

Quote

For a device to be compatible and useful it must conform to the following requirements:

* The capacity of the removable media must be at least 256 MB (250 after formatting)
* Devices larger than 4 GB will have only 4 GB used for ReadyBoost
* The device should have an access time of 1 MS or less
* The device must be capable of 2.5 MB/s read speeds for 4 KB random reads spread uniformly across the entire device and 1.75 MB/s write speeds for 512 KB random writes spread uniformly across the device
* The device must have at least 235 MB of free space
* NTFS, FAT16 and FAT32 are supported
* The initial release of ReadyBoost supports one device
* The recommended amount of flash memory to use for Windows ReadyBoost acceleration is one to three times the amount of random access memory (RAM) installed in your computer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost
Broni, I tried it my notebook PC which only has 1GB of RAM and I can't say that I could really tell a difference. So, I stopped using the flash drive that way. BTW, the flash drive is "optimized for ReadyBoost" and my computer immediately prompted me to decide whether I wanted to use it for ReadyBoost the FIRST time I connected it.

I might have continued using the flash drive for ReadyBoost even if I could not notice a difference but one problem discouraged me from continuing to use it. When the notebook goes into sleep mode and I later awaken it, Vista then does not recognize the flash drive for ReadyBoost. To re-enable it, I have to remove the flash drive, then re-connect it.

I read somewhere that this was a known problem with Vista systems, pre-SP1, but that SP1 was supposed to correct it. But, with my system, SP1 did not resolve that.Thanks for the info, soybean.
I don't use sleep mode, so at least I don't have to worry about that issue.
I'll keep testing ReadyBoost for couple more DAYS, and see how it goes.

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