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ReadyBoost

200 points posted to Accessories (Keyboards, etc.) by captainsensible 04/05/07

What we need is the new Readyboost 2GB flash drive that connects to a USB header on the motherboard!



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captainsensible
04/05/07		 And it includes pass-thru so you can still attach your extra fan controls and card readers and all that good stuff.
jervis961
04/05/07		 Good find captainsensible, I've never seen that before.
flooted
04/05/07		 I like it, but what does it do?
jervis961
04/05/07		 Vista has a ready boost system that puts information into the flash memory so it doesn't have to wait for it to come off the hard drive which can be much slower. I'm sure there are other programs that do this also.
flooted
04/05/07		 oh, thanks. Is this to compensate Vista's slow speed, or heavy requirements... Don't suppose it'd work on a laptop
captainsensible
04/05/07		 D'oh.. the Dell DJ Ditty does not run fast enough for ReadyBoost... *sniff* And a lot of the flash drives that say they can transfer data at high speeds are wrooong.. . If you insert a good key into a usb port on a Vista machine it will pop up and ask if you want to use it with ReadyBoost which holds your pagefile. (Didn't you always want to copy windows 3.1/95 to a ramdrive and make it superfast?) Or Qemm/Desqview (wow I'm old)
steveoc
04/07/07		 thats a cool option - although Im thinking nano-itx mobo with a linux distro on the usb flash drive, sitting on the mobo like that.

Would be very useful for some embedded apps
catalyst
04/07/07		 MIA
vfun
04/11/07		 !?!?! If you want flash on the motherboard - just put the flash chip on the motherboard.

It's pretty absurd to go motherboard<->USB<->USB<->memory. You don't do that for DRAM, so why would you do it for this memory?

Better would be to install an internal flash drive and pre-install the heavily used OS components there.
captainsensible
04/11/07		 well on a portable for example, you want something that can easily be replaced if it fails, instead of getting a motherboard replacement.
jhill25570
05/05/07		 a company tested some Flash Drivers with 4 GB. Buffalo Ultra High was the faster over all. Super Talent USB Flash was next. And Corsair Flash Voyager was thrid. I hope that Dell will use the best Flash Driver.
thebittersea
05/05/07		 That would be a great idea.
I heard that ready boost is all hype.
 
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