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May 31st 09, 03:34 PM
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ReadyBoost size question
I have a laptop with 2Gb, Vista Ultimate, and an SD slot I use for
ReadyBoost. I currently have a fast 4Gb SD card, but noticed the price on 16Gb SD cards has gone way down. Would there be any benefit to replacing my 4Gb with a 16Gb, given that I only have 2Gb of RAM? Could ReadyBoost make use of it all? Would I notice any difference? Dana Cline 
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May 31st 09, 08:54 PM
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ReadyBoost size question
The Max Size of ReadyBoost is 4gig however you might
gain by having the fastest Thumbdrive available. "Dana Cline" wrote in message ... I have a laptop with 2Gb, Vista Ultimate, and an SD slot I use for ReadyBoost. I currently have a fast 4Gb SD card, but noticed the price on 16Gb SD cards has gone way down. Would there be any benefit to replacing my 4Gb with a 16Gb, given that I only have 2Gb of RAM? Could ReadyBoost make use of it all? Would I notice any difference? Dana Cline
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June 1st 09, 04:56 AM
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ReadyBoost size question
OK, thanks...I'll stick with my 4gb card. It's a "133x", whatever that is.
My previous 2Gb card was 150x. Dana Cline "Spirit" noone@localhost wrote in message ... The Max Size of ReadyBoost is 4gig however you might gain by having the fastest Thumbdrive available. "Dana Cline" wrote in message ... I have a laptop with 2Gb, Vista Ultimate, and an SD slot I use for ReadyBoost. I currently have a fast 4Gb SD card, but noticed the price on 16Gb SD cards has gone way down. Would there be any benefit to replacing my 4Gb with a 16Gb, given that I only have 2Gb of RAM? Could ReadyBoost make use of it all? Would I notice any difference? Dana Cline
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June 5th 09, 07:12 AM
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ReadyBoost size question
You might be interested to know that with a Windows 7 upgrade (available
starting October 22, 2009) The limit of 4 GB will be lifted and more than one device can be used at the same time for ReadyBoost. "Dana Cline" wrote in message ... I have a laptop with 2Gb, Vista Ultimate, and an SD slot I use for ReadyBoost. I currently have a fast 4Gb SD card, but noticed the price on 16Gb SD cards has gone way down. Would there be any benefit to replacing my 4Gb with a 16Gb, given that I only have 2Gb of RAM? Could ReadyBoost make use of it all? Would I notice any difference? Dana Cline
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June 10th 09, 11:13 AM
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ReadyBoost size question
Thanks - that's interesting and possibly useful. But it begs my original
question...would a 16Gb SD ReadyBoost really make any difference over a 4Gb one when I only have 2Gb of RAM? Dana Cline "Gary Mount" wrote in message ... You might be interested to know that with a Windows 7 upgrade (available starting October 22, 2009) The limit of 4 GB will be lifted and more than one device can be used at the same time for ReadyBoost. "Dana Cline" wrote in message ... I have a laptop with 2Gb, Vista Ultimate, and an SD slot I use for ReadyBoost. I currently have a fast 4Gb SD card, but noticed the price on 16Gb SD cards has gone way down. Would there be any benefit to replacing my 4Gb with a 16Gb, given that I only have 2Gb of RAM? Could ReadyBoost make use of it all? Would I notice any difference? Dana Cline
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June 10th 09, 06:45 PM
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ReadyBoost size question
No, max size is 4Gig,,,,, however a FAST drive helps.
Not to say yours is not fast. "Dana Cline" wrote in message ... Thanks - that's interesting and possibly useful. But it begs my original question...would a 16Gb SD ReadyBoost really make any difference over a 4Gb one when I only have 2Gb of RAM? Dana Cline "Gary Mount" wrote in message ... You might be interested to know that with a Windows 7 upgrade (available starting October 22, 2009) The limit of 4 GB will be lifted and more than one device can be used at the same time for ReadyBoost. "Dana Cline" wrote in message ... I have a laptop with 2Gb, Vista Ultimate, and an SD slot I use for ReadyBoost. I currently have a fast 4Gb SD card, but noticed the price on 16Gb SD cards has gone way down. Would there be any benefit to replacing my 4Gb with a 16Gb, given that I only have 2Gb of RAM? Could ReadyBoost make use of it all? Would I notice any difference? Dana Cline
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June 10th 09, 08:09 PM
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ReadyBoost size question
In message "Dana Cline"
was claimed to have wrote: Thanks - that's interesting and possibly useful. But it begs my original question...would a 16Gb SD ReadyBoost really make any difference over a 4Gb one when I only have 2Gb of RAM? 2Gb is only 256 megabytes of memory, which isn't really enough to run Vista in the first place, so I'm going to assume you mean GB rather then Gb here -- Let me know if I'm wrong about that? Anyway, ReadyBoost uses a maximum of 4GB, so going from a 4GB SD card to 16GB SD card would make no difference if that were the only change. However, SD card performance makes a huge difference to ReadyBoost's overall performance. The fact that you have 2GB of RAM doesn't really enter into the equation, except that if you have enough otherwise unused RAM, SuperFetch loads more data into RAM and ReadyBoost will have less of an impact. In other words, the less RAM you have, the more performance improvement you'll see from ReadyBoost.
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June 12th 09, 03:49 AM
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ReadyBoost size question
Yes, I did mean 4 gigabytes, not gigabits. Sorry...just sloppy typing on my
part. Dana Cline "Dave Warren" wrote in message ... In message "Dana Cline" was claimed to have wrote: Thanks - that's interesting and possibly useful. But it begs my original question...would a 16Gb SD ReadyBoost really make any difference over a 4Gb one when I only have 2Gb of RAM? 2Gb is only 256 megabytes of memory, which isn't really enough to run Vista in the first place, so I'm going to assume you mean GB rather then Gb here -- Let me know if I'm wrong about that? Anyway, ReadyBoost uses a maximum of 4GB, so going from a 4GB SD card to 16GB SD card would make no difference if that were the only change. However, SD card performance makes a huge difference to ReadyBoost's overall performance. The fact that you have 2GB of RAM doesn't really enter into the equation, except that if you have enough otherwise unused RAM, SuperFetch loads more data into RAM and ReadyBoost will have less of an impact. In other words, the less RAM you have, the more performance improvement you'll see from ReadyBoost.
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June 12th 09, 05:09 AM
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In message "Dana Cline"
was claimed to have wrote: Yes, I did mean 4 gigabytes, not gigabits. Sorry...just sloppy typing on my part. No worries, just being overly pedantic (a trait that isn't always looked upon favorably, although one that serves me well professionally)
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June 16th 09, 03:28 AM
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ReadyBoost size question
I have a 32 GB Jumpdrive used for ReadyBoost for 3D CAD modeling. If you have 64-bit it should address it all. Upgraded to the 16Gb should be good, even it wont use more than 4GB(which it should)...you can still use it for saving data. You would have faster read times if you did that. -- Blackhawk7188
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