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Vista Defragmenter and ReadyBoost drive
Hi,
I noticed something funny on my laptop last night. I have a 2GB SD card which I use for Vista Readboost. My laptop is scheduled to perform the Vista Defragmenter at 22:00 each Sunday. At exactly that time, the light for the SD card started flashing a whole bunch. To me, this appears like the defragmenter had kicked-in and was trying to defrag the Readyboost drive. Now, as the Vista defragmenter GUI is so limited, is there (a) a way I can tell if it is defragmenting this drive or not and (b) a way to stop it from doing so. Surely it's not necessary to defragment this as it's basically one large file and also will it not reduce the life of the flash memory considerably by defragmenting? Any ideas? Thanks! -- Derek |
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Vista Defragmenter and ReadyBoost drive
I'm not sure if you can adjust this or not...I've found that for Vista,
Diskeeper is a good solution, and you can certainly adjust it there. I enjoy seeing my defrag work, and Vista's defrag took that away from us. I like the idea of using an SD card as a ReadyBoost - thought that only worked with USB sticks. Can you notice a difference? Dana Cline - MCE MVP "Derek" wrote in message ... Hi, I noticed something funny on my laptop last night. I have a 2GB SD card which I use for Vista Readboost. My laptop is scheduled to perform the Vista Defragmenter at 22:00 each Sunday. At exactly that time, the light for the SD card started flashing a whole bunch. To me, this appears like the defragmenter had kicked-in and was trying to defrag the Readyboost drive. Now, as the Vista defragmenter GUI is so limited, is there (a) a way I can tell if it is defragmenting this drive or not and (b) a way to stop it from doing so. Surely it's not necessary to defragment this as it's basically one large file and also will it not reduce the life of the flash memory considerably by defragmenting? Any ideas? Thanks! -- Derek |
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Vista Defragmenter and ReadyBoost drive
Hi,
I'm going to give PerfectDisk a go as that comes highly recommended. I'm using the SD card on a Toshiba M5 laptop and it definitely seems to improve things - and no USB stick poking out of the back! :-) -- Derek "Dana Cline - MVP" wrote: I'm not sure if you can adjust this or not...I've found that for Vista, Diskeeper is a good solution, and you can certainly adjust it there. I enjoy seeing my defrag work, and Vista's defrag took that away from us. I like the idea of using an SD card as a ReadyBoost - thought that only worked with USB sticks. Can you notice a difference? Dana Cline - MCE MVP "Derek" wrote in message ... Hi, I noticed something funny on my laptop last night. I have a 2GB SD card which I use for Vista Readboost. My laptop is scheduled to perform the Vista Defragmenter at 22:00 each Sunday. At exactly that time, the light for the SD card started flashing a whole bunch. To me, this appears like the defragmenter had kicked-in and was trying to defrag the Readyboost drive. Now, as the Vista defragmenter GUI is so limited, is there (a) a way I can tell if it is defragmenting this drive or not and (b) a way to stop it from doing so. Surely it's not necessary to defragment this as it's basically one large file and also will it not reduce the life of the flash memory considerably by defragmenting? Any ideas? Thanks! -- Derek |
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Vista Defragmenter and ReadyBoost drive
Defraggmentation utilizes "Superfetch" (Paging file) - therefore ReadyBoost
is involved. "Derek" wrote in message ... Hi, I noticed something funny on my laptop last night. I have a 2GB SD card which I use for Vista Readboost. My laptop is scheduled to perform the Vista Defragmenter at 22:00 each Sunday. At exactly that time, the light for the SD card started flashing a whole bunch. To me, this appears like the defragmenter had kicked-in and was trying to defrag the Readyboost drive. Now, as the Vista defragmenter GUI is so limited, is there (a) a way I can tell if it is defragmenting this drive or not and (b) a way to stop it from doing so. Surely it's not necessary to defragment this as it's basically one large file and also will it not reduce the life of the flash memory considerably by defragmenting? Any ideas? Thanks! -- Derek |
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Vista Defragmenter and ReadyBoost drive
"Derek" wrote
Hi, I noticed something funny on my laptop last night. I have a 2GB SD card which I use for Vista Readboost. My laptop is scheduled to perform the Vista Defragmenter at 22:00 each Sunday. At exactly that time, the light for the SD card started flashing a whole bunch. To me, this appears like the defragmenter had kicked-in and was trying to defrag the Readyboost drive. Now, as the Vista defragmenter GUI is so limited, is there (a) a way I can tell if it is defragmenting this drive or not and (b) a way to stop it from doing so. Surely it's not necessary to defragment this as it's basically one large file and also will it not reduce the life of the flash memory considerably by defragmenting? I believe as part of the optimization process for ReadyBoost the device is defragmented at specific intervals. Look in Event Viewer at the ReadyBoost log under Applications and Services Logs | Microsoft | Windows | ReadyBoost | Operational look for Event ID 1017. I suppose when a system defrag is started it could also look at the drive used for ReadyBoost. ReadyBoost constantly writes to the device, so the defrag is not going to do much to decrease lifetime. If you want to see these writes, open Reliability and Performance Monitor, expand the disk section and look for reads/writes to this file: X:\ReadyBoost.sfcache, where X is the driver letter for the ReadyBoost device. -- Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell] |
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Vista Defragmenter and ReadyBoost drive
On Apr 30, 1:28 pm, Derek wrote:
Hi, I'm going to give PerfectDisk a go as that comes highly recommended. I'm using the SD card on a Toshiba M5 laptop and it definitely seems to improve things - and no USB stick poking out of the back! :-) -- Derek "Dana Cline - MVP" wrote: I'm not sure if you can adjust this or not...I've found that for Vista, Diskeeperis a good solution, and you can certainly adjust it there. I enjoy seeing my defrag work, and Vista's defrag took that away from us. I like the idea of using an SD card as a ReadyBoost - thought that only worked with USB sticks. Can you notice a difference? Dana Cline - MCE MVP "Derek" wrote in message ... Hi, I noticed something funny on my laptop last night. I have a 2GB SD card which I use for Vista Readboost. My laptop is scheduled to perform the Vista Defragmenter at 22:00 each Sunday. At exactly that time, the light for the SD card started flashing a whole bunch. To me, this appears like the defragmenter had kicked-in and was trying to defrag the Readyboost drive. Now, as the Vista defragmenter GUI is so limited, is there (a) a way I can tell if it is defragmenting this drive or not and (b) a way to stop it from doing so. Surely it's not necessary to defragment this as it's basically one large file and also will it not reduce the life of the flash memory considerably by defragmenting? Any ideas? Thanks! -- Derek I use PerfectDisk as well - Good stuff! I heard a rumor that they (Raxco) will have something out next Tuesday that will be a huge addition to the Vista PC health market. I'll check it out and let you know..... |
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sd ram card for ready boost
Nope not at all. I use an sd card also... You should buy a highspeed 16 gigabyte SD card ^_- a regular SD card is just about as fast as a regular flash drive.... but yeah windows boots super fast since I put in... and some programs start faster as well
On Monday, April 30, 2007 6:40 AM Dere wrote: Hi, I noticed something funny on my laptop last night. I have a 2GB SD card which I use for Vista Readboost. My laptop is scheduled to perform the Vista Defragmenter at 22:00 each Sunday. At exactly that time, the light for the SD card started flashing a whole bunch. To me, this appears like the defragmenter had kicked-in and was trying to defrag the Readyboost drive. Now, as the Vista defragmenter GUI is so limited, is there (a) a way I can tell if it is defragmenting this drive or not and (b) a way to stop it from doing so. Surely it's not necessary to defragment this as it's basically one large file and also will it not reduce the life of the flash memory considerably by defragmenting? Any ideas? Thanks! -- Derek On Monday, April 30, 2007 12:40 PM Dana Cline - MVP wrote: I'm not sure if you can adjust this or not...I've found that for Vista, Diskeeper is a good solution, and you can certainly adjust it there. I enjoy seeing my defrag work, and Vista's defrag took that away from us. I like the idea of using an SD card as a ReadyBoost - thought that only worked with USB sticks. Can you notice a difference? Dana Cline - MCE MVP "Derek" wrote in message ... On Monday, April 30, 2007 1:28 PM Dere wrote: Hi, I'm going to give PerfectDisk a go as that comes highly recommended. I'm using the SD card on a Toshiba M5 laptop and it definitely seems to improve things - and no USB stick poking out of the back! :-) -- Derek "Dana Cline - MVP" wrote: On Monday, April 30, 2007 2:34 PM AJR wrote: Defraggmentation utilizes "Superfetch" (Paging file) - therefore ReadyBoost is involved. On Tuesday, May 01, 2007 1:21 AM Rock wrote: "Derek" wrote I believe as part of the optimization process for ReadyBoost the device is defragmented at specific intervals. Look in Event Viewer at the ReadyBoost log under Applications and Services Logs | Microsoft | Windows | ReadyBoost started it could also look at the drive used for ReadyBoost. ReadyBoost constantly writes to the device, so the defrag is not going to do much to decrease lifetime. If you want to see these writes, open Reliability and Performance Monitor, expand the disk section and look for reads/writes to this file: X:\ReadyBoost.sfcache, where X is the driver letter for the ReadyBoost device. -- Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell] On Thursday, May 03, 2007 9:12 PM peaheadste wrote: On Apr 30, 1:28 pm, Derek wrote: I use PerfectDisk as well - Good stuff! I heard a rumor that they (Raxco) will have something out next Tuesday that will be a huge addition to the Vista PC health market. I'll check it out and let you know..... Submitted via EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice Autocorrelation method in C# for signal analysis http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials...-analysis.aspx |