ReadyBoost quick question

[BD2003]

Originally posted by: harpy82

Originally posted by: nerp
Readyboost is here to stay. True, the benefit for high end systems with plenty of main memory might not benefit all that much.

PREDICTION: Enthusiast motherboards will soon start shipping with integrated readyboost drives. They'll be marketed as built-in performance and critical storage.

Write that down.

It's going to be a bit stupid to do that. How hard is plugging in a flashdrive to a usb port to justify this action.

I rather the motherboard comes with another 2 RAM slots that are bridged to SATA ports. This way we can use RAM for page file, which is tons more effective than readyboast. The similar solution out there now are pretty costly.

Why on earth would you want to use ram for a page file? That'd be like filling your gas tank half up, and putting the rest in the trunk. Its a lot more useful in your tank.

The whole point of flash is that it's cheap and fast. Putting it on the motherboard or SATA/PCI would decrease the latency significantly.

If you have money to burn, and all your slots are full, gigabyte sells a PCI card that has 4 ram slots, and can be configured as a drive which you can put a pagefile on. But thats far from mainstream.

 

[zig3695]

Originally posted by: BD2003

The whole point of flash is that it's cheap and fast. Putting it on the motherboard or SATA/PCI would decrease the latency significantly.

also doesnt lose its memory when powered off, like ram does.

 

[Nothinman]

also doesnt lose its memory when powered off, like ram does.

But the ReadyBoost cache is discarded on bootup so that's irrelevant.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

also doesnt lose its memory when powered off, like ram does.

But the ReadyBoost cache is discarded on bootup so that's irrelevant.

????? I do not believe that is correct.

 

[Nothinman]

????? I do not believe that is correct.

I thought I read that it was populated fresh on each bootup.

 

[BD2003]

Originally posted by: bsobel

Originally posted by: Nothinman

also doesnt lose its memory when powered off, like ram does.

But the ReadyBoost cache is discarded on bootup so that's irrelevant.

????? I do not believe that is correct.

It is correct...the cached data is definitely not reused across boots. The readyboost cache is used during boot to speed things up, but its not by virtue of previously cached data the boot before.

Nor is it reused across standby or hibernate, unless you supposedly flag it to do so using a utility - which didn't work for me.

 

[Nothinman]

Also isn't it encrypted with a key that's randomly generated on each bootup? That would make it much more difficult to reuse across reboots.

 

[BD2003]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Also isn't it encrypted with a key that's randomly generated on each bootup? That would make it much more difficult to reuse across reboots.

I know its encrypted, and I'm fairly sure its randomly generated each boot/suspend.

They really went overboard with it IMO - the encryption and safety precautions are great and all, but I'd at least like the option to turn them off and take my own chances. I'm pretty damn sure my USB key in the back of my desktop isnt going to fall out, and no one is going to find anything special if they steal it.