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Ready Boost

Pghpooh

Pghpooh

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Does anyone have experience using ready boost?

My laptop is a HP dv2000 series and has 2 gig of ram.
The ram is shared by the video and rest of the laptop.

I would like to add more memory but when I contacted HP they told me that 2 gig of ram is the maximum that can be used.

I read that the Vista o/s has ready boost that will add more memory.
From what I found ready boost is supported by using USB drives.
Does anyone make a sd card that is ready boost capable??
I don?t like the idea of having a usb drive sticking out of the side of my laptop all the time whereas a sd card will be ?inside the laptop via the built in card reader?.

Thanks
Pghpooh

I am posting this here and in the laptop forum
 
My laptop uses SD for readyboost, so yes you can do that.

Pretty much any card should be ok. Even the crapiest 4gb SD on newegg has a minimum speed of 4mb/s

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I would like to add more memory but when I contacted HP they told me that 2 gig of ram is the maximum that can be used.
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Wrong....put 2x2gb in there, and skip ready boost all together.

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If you're dealing with a laptop, readyboost can definitely make a difference with 2gb ram. Even on my desktop I used readyboost with 2gb ram and it definitely made things like loading Photoshop and Dreamweaver much more snappy.

The caveat being, I've tried SD cards before and they weren't readyboost compatible. They have to reach the minimum speed across the whole drive and the ones I've tried haven't made the cut.

-z
 
If you were to go the SD card way I would recommend a "Class 6" SD card. They are more expensive but they are a lot faster too. I use them in my Olympus Evolt and cell phone. And you can see the difference in speed, no dout.

Thanks, JASTECH
 
its not just about reaching min speed, the greater the speed, the more boost you get. the min speed is because below it you actually SLOW DOWN instead of boost...
 
FYI - just did a quick test on a MiniSD-HC I had laying around, got 4.5mb/s read, but 1.2ms access time - ReadyBoost requires sub-1ms access time. Something to consider when looking at flash media.
 
Originally posted by: zagood
FYI - just did a quick test on a MiniSD-HC I had laying around, got 4.5mb/s read, but 1.2ms access time - ReadyBoost requires sub-1ms access time. Something to consider when looking at flash media.
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2nd.
Not all flash media is ReadyBoostable.
Most stuff from Sandisk seems to be ok but note sure with other makers.
 
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