SD / Ready Boost ?

[Wonderman]

Can anyone recommend an SD card ( 4GB) for use in Vista Ready Boost ? TIA.

 

[JW]

Sandisk Extreme III

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Can anyone recommend an SD card ( 4GB) for use in Vista Ready Boost ? TIA.

I recommend *against* using ReadyBoost.

If you have 2GB or more of RAM, the little it might do for you is so
slight as to be almost unnoticeable.

And if you have less than 2GB of RAM, you would do much better to
spend your money on upgrading your RAM to 2GB than on buying a card
for ReadyBoost use.

 

[JW]

Ken,
I totally disagree with your opinion of ready boost.
Just the super fetch acceleration feature is worth the cost. When I boot my
Vista desktop I can connect to the internet and download message in about 45
seconds. And both my 2GB desktop and my 1GB laptop run much faster when
working with multiple applications that require the paging file to be used
since I have installed ReadyBoost memory on them.
I have not seen any MS TechNet article or other link that supports your
position.

 

[SG]

You haven't looked far enough...

http://lifehacker.com/software/in-brief/readyboost-doesnt-do-much-boosting-261318.php

http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=2917&p=6

http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12354-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=33585&messageID=620676

BTW, just type: faults in ready boost in Google for many more opinions.

For some it seems to work and others not. ReadyBoost is like which Antivirus
is the best, you ask and most answers will be a personal opinion. Mine will
follow Ken on this one because Ram is cheap, it's hard installed and I don't
have to worry about loosing it :>)

--
All the best,
SG

Is your computer system ready for Vista?
https://winqual.microsoft.com/hcl/

Ken,
I totally disagree with your opinion of ready boost.
Just the super fetch acceleration feature is worth the cost. When I boot
my Vista desktop I can connect to the internet and download message in
about 45 seconds. And both my 2GB desktop and my 1GB laptop run much
faster when working with multiple applications that require the paging
file to be used since I have installed ReadyBoost memory on them.
I have not seen any MS TechNet article or other link that supports your
position.

 

[JW]

None of the links support the hypothesis that Ready Boos won't help any
system it is installed on.
For example the Anandtech links never try 1GB plus 2GB of Ready Boost they
only show that a 1GB system will perform better then a 512MB system which of
course is to be expected.
Also the Anandtech links do test with more then one application running
which would reduce the effect of the ReadyBoost paging cache feature.

I suggest that you read the following link and some of the references it
lists to understand better how ReadyBoost does improve performance for
systems with more memory.

http://blogs.technet.com/askperf/archive/2007/03/29/windows-vista-superfetch-readyboost.aspx

You haven't looked far enough...

http://lifehacker.com/software/in-brief/readyboost-doesnt-do-much-boosting-261318.php

http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=2917&p=6

http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12354-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=33585&messageID=620676

BTW, just type: faults in ready boost in Google for many more opinions.

For some it seems to work and others not. ReadyBoost is like which
Antivirus is the best, you ask and most answers will be a personal
opinion. Mine will follow Ken on this one because Ram is cheap, it's hard
installed and I don't have to worry about loosing it :>)

--
All the best,
SG

Is your computer system ready for Vista?
https://winqual.microsoft.com/hcl/

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Ken,
I totally disagree with your opinion of ready boost.

That's fine. We don't all have to have the same opinion. My experience
has been very different from yours.

 

[SG]

As I said, for some it seems to work and others not. It's just one of these
Window things that you can find many articles on supporting both sides. Kind
of reminds me of the Win9X paging file issue and that argument still goes on
today. If it works for you then by all means go for it, if not then there's
nothing lost.

--
All the best,
SG

Is your computer system ready for Vista?
https://winqual.microsoft.com/hcl/

None of the links support the hypothesis that Ready Boos won't help any
system it is installed on.
For example the Anandtech links never try 1GB plus 2GB of Ready Boost they
only show that a 1GB system will perform better then a 512MB system which
of course is to be expected.
Also the Anandtech links do test with more then one application running
which would reduce the effect of the ReadyBoost paging cache feature.

I suggest that you read the following link and some of the references it
lists to understand better how ReadyBoost does improve performance for
systems with more memory.

http://blogs.technet.com/askperf/archive/2007/03/29/windows-vista-superfetch-readyboost.aspx

 

[JW]

One of the things I forgot to mention is that with each of my system it took
from one to two weeks for all of the performance improvements to take effect
since I often do not reboot my systems each day but do so every other day.