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The X41 has 1.5Ghz Centrino with 1.5GB RAM and when the SD card is added it makes a massive difference. The Z60m has the maximum 2GB RAM combination possible, and any extra help in a slot never to be used cant be bad. Yea, you're messing with stuff that's likely to give you little to no added benefit...in a best

4 gig flash drive out about the time of vista....
Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote: Using Windows ReadyBoost is not the same thing as adding more system memory. Windows ReadyBoost can improve system performance because it can retrieve Well it won't speed up your system boot because SD cards are removable media so Vista assumes it may be removed and can't rely on it.

Best for ReadyBoost: USB vs. SD Card
I did a test of some here: http://www.activewin. com/reviews/hardware/memory/vista/readyboost.shtml -- Byron Hinson ActiveWin Windows Site: http://www.activewin.com i tried a new 2gb sd card and a 1gb usb drive and attempted to use them under readyboost, but both said does not have the required performance

Readyboost: how to?
I have a internal USB MITSUMI FA-404 FLOPPY + 7 IN 1 CARD READER. When I plug in SD cards they are read fine. I used one for readyboost (2 GB Sandisk). But after a while the drive disappears. It is not shown in 'Computer' any more and the drive light does not come on any more. I can remove the card and stick it

Readyboost & SD Card Slot
I understand that Readyboost will perform not only through the USB slot, but also the SD card slot. I own a Sony VGN-N220E notebook, and the knowledge base at Sony was not very helpful. The manual says that the SD card slot does not support high-speed data transfer feature of the SD memory card.

readyboost problems
There seems to be a whole clan of people saying Readyboost messes up your machine and some which praises the preformance. What I would like to know is, if I have 1GB of RAM and set up Readyboost on, not one but two Memory cards (One is a 2GB Compact Flash card and the other is a 2GB SD card).

readyboost problems
Both have SD card slots so I bought 2 SanDisk Extreme III 2.0GB SD cards setup for full use on ReadyBoost as I wouldn't use these card slots for anything else. The X41 with the SD card works perfectly. BUT when I enable ReadyBoost in the Z60m, the CPU starts running at 100% and the HDD light starts to flash and the

Readyboost & SD Card Slot
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.

Readyboost - which 2GB SD card?
I've read somewhere that Vist Readyboost only use up to 1GB and beyond that any spare is useless. Can anyone advise if this is so? For this purpose is it better to buy SD card or flash drive? I understand that USB flash drive must be version 2 what about SD cards? Are there different speed for SD cards?

New icon for SD card
Turns out the there the hang seems to be coming from the SD card in the SD slot. I use a SD card for Readyboost in Vista. Once removed all USB sticks and SD card readers and even very cheap SD cards boot just fine. I have tried images created through dd and MIC and all work fine. The question now is if the Q1 is

USB SD flash card disappears.
When I bought the computer, I also bought a San Disk 2 GB SD card. Readyboost worked fine. My puppy decided he wanted the SD card more than I did. I have bought 4 GB SD card, a 4 GB flash drive and now a San Disk 2 GB SD card. Everytime I plug any of those in, Vista tells me that the card or flash drive is not fast

SD card opens window on resume from Sleep
My ReadyBoost drive is R:, the SanDisk SD card reader is S:, the DVD writer is W:, etc. Also, I assign names (labels) to each volume when I can; these get written to the drive and don't change, even if D:\Data becomes F:\Data at some point. For a start, please give us a few basic facts: 1.

SD Card for ReadyBoost?
Richard G. Harper rghar...@email.com microsoft public windows vista general ReadyBoost does not do anything to assist or compensate for processor speed so the type I've seen conflicting information regarding the advantages of ReadyBoost. For this Dell Core Duo laptop it's trivial to leave a 1GB SD card in the

ReadyBoost - do I really have 5.5GB RAM?
Readyboost only works with USB thumb drives having at least 2 gig of space.. I have an Apacer Internal built card reader. and tried all my SD cards one having 4 gig of memory and the other 2 gig. both failed. This is because SD cards are way too slow for readyboost. and only Flash USB drives are compatible with

USB SD flash card disappears.
Acru Fox acru...@hotmail.com microsoft public windows vista general Nope as soon as I pull the SD card out the drive letter dissappears :> I blame vista going to RTM before I could test any SD cards out :) I don't exactly remember a ton of people actually testing readyboost out during the beta and windows just

Laptop won't recognize a 2 GB SD card...
Simon Si...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista hardware_devices My Vista laptop has a built-in SD card reader. In it, I have a fast 2GB SD card that I'm using for the ReadyBoost cache. I don't use it for anything else. Everytime I resume the laptop from Sleep, an Explorer window opens on the

2 GB SD Card showing as 1 GB after Format
I thought ReadyBoost worked with USB 2 sticks (provided they are fast enough). Aye, there's the rub - most USB drives are NOT fast enough. Expect to see lots of special deals on most of today's I have accumulated a few USB flash drives over a year or few, some being quite recently acquired, as well as SD cards.

Is your flash drive fast enough for Vista's ReadyBoost?
Fat Bastard bast...@home.com microsoft public windows vista performance_maintenance I am using a cheap-ass aData MyFlash 2gb SD card and it works fine for ReadyBoost. I second the other guy that said going over 2gb or so is a waste. "McFly" <Mc...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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Swingman k...@nospam.com microsoft public windows vista general "Stephan Rose" wrote in message The thing about Ready boost is that it can't work. If it does, then the system is so under spec that it should probably be running DOS 6.0 Your understanding of the concept, and disk access/random reads, is flawed ... do

Vista hangs indefinitely on shutdown
I understood that, if we have a flash memory device which happens to be between 256MB and 32GB in size, with a transfer rate of 2.5MB/s or higher for random 4KB reads, also with a transfer rate of 1.75MB/s or higher for random 512KB writes, then ReadyBoost will be ready to dedicate up to 4GB of the storage for disk