Any viability of using a 150x 4GB SD/IO card with New 4GB / Vista-U laptop?

[abrandt]

Hello Members:

(RE: MS Vista Ultimate and PC laptop hardware: If I have posted this inquiry in an incorrect category, please forgive and feel free to move it to the right section.)

I purchased a Toshiba A205-S4629 Satellite laptop (from Best Buy) which I've upgraded to (2) 2GB sticks - PC2-5300 DDR2 - 667 MHz (Kingston P/N KTT667D2/2G).
(FYI: Performance improvement from 2GB stock to 4GB upgrade was tremendous.)

PROBLEM: I have been unable to acquire an AUTHORITATIVE answer to any of the (3) questions from Toshiba customer service or tech support for weeks, even upon escalation requests from the Best Buy Executive Resolution dept :

• 3-QUESTIONS:
  
  1. Is there any performance VIABILITY to utilizing a 150x SD/IO card with a 4GB RAM A205-S4629 Satellite laptop?
  If YES - please detail specific application(s)
  
  
  2. Does the A205 USB bridge circuit present a bottleneck limiting the throughput speed of 150x SD card?
  
  3. Does any specific A205 compliant flash memory format provide higher performance than any other?

Any definitive, detailed and documented responses would be greatly appreciated!


Thank you in advance for a prompt and detailed response,

Alan

 

[PCTC2]

are you talking about ReadyBoost? I have the same laptop and I'm using a 4GB SD Card. It has less to do with RAM and more to do with accessing the harddrive less. It can work either way. I have seen it give a slight performance boost or even be a bottleneck. For me, it gave me a slight boost in PCMark05, but that's about it. Not really worth it.

 

[abrandt]

Hello PCTC2:

Thank you for your response... only one so far.

I am not referring to "ReadyBoost" in that there is plenty of definitive info that RB is all diminishing returns with anything more than 1 GB RAM.

The question has been answered: "Not really worth it."

This clearly means to me... there are no additional benefits, no viable performance enhancement. Period.

Much appreciate.

Alan

 

[aka1nas]

You need to be more clear with what you are trying to do with the SD card.

 

[abrandt]

Hello aka1nas:

I apologize, but I don't know how to ask the question any more clearly than I have.

My questions above are quite SPECIFIC to the best of my knowledge:

- Is ANY kind of performance improvement available utilizing any format of FLASH MEMORY with a 4GB laptop as described above???

If I am being OBTUSE... then please forgive me and respond with ANY & ALL POSSIBILITIES.

Thank you in advance for ANY & ALL responses!

Alan

 

[PCTC2]

You seem not to get it. Sorry. But if you use flash memory as a performance boost, you're using it as "RAM" which is "ReadyBoost" under Vista. What way do you want to use the flash memory as a "performance boost"?