djles.co.uk
Have you looked into Readyboost? Not many people know of it, introduced in Vista and now W7.
If you have an SD memory card or USB memory stick, plug it in and make it Readyboost. It then becomes part of your Operating System memory!!! Great for anyone with 1 or 2 gigs only. Speeds up your system!!! Speed increase was visible on my system which has 3gb. I now have a 2gb SD card plugged in permanently as it doesn't stick out unlike USB sticks. Gonna get a much bigger SD card, probably an 8gb, and see what effect it has when using Sony Vegas or other heavy memory using programs.
Dunno what effect, if any, it has using VDJ, any reponse from the developers??????????
Details here along with lots of other tips;
http://windows7themes.net/speed-up-windows-7.html
Cheers :-)
Les
http://www.vdjles.com
If you have an SD memory card or USB memory stick, plug it in and make it Readyboost. It then becomes part of your Operating System memory!!! Great for anyone with 1 or 2 gigs only. Speeds up your system!!! Speed increase was visible on my system which has 3gb. I now have a 2gb SD card plugged in permanently as it doesn't stick out unlike USB sticks. Gonna get a much bigger SD card, probably an 8gb, and see what effect it has when using Sony Vegas or other heavy memory using programs.
Dunno what effect, if any, it has using VDJ, any reponse from the developers??????????
Details here along with lots of other tips;
http://windows7themes.net/speed-up-windows-7.html
Cheers :-)
Les
http://www.vdjles.com
Inviato Sat 28 Nov 09 @ 6:16 pm
DJ-ALF
I don't recommend using this feature, USB and SD cards are slow comparing to ram memory modules, so you should consider upgrading them.
Inviato Sat 28 Nov 09 @ 8:42 pm
djles.co.uk
Hmmm, have you tried it?
Most people haven't, it is meant to be cache RAM and works best with small i/o operations.
Most people haven't, it is meant to be cache RAM and works best with small i/o operations.
Inviato Sat 28 Nov 09 @ 9:24 pm
karaokekev
readyboost does work use it on mine it as stated above uses it as cache ram, which in basic terms it takes a copy of some of the files windows needs to access on a regular bassis and puts them on the stick/sd card as it can access the files faster through usb than off a ide/sata hard drive i must point out to the first op though a 8gb card is not reccomended microsoft says on their site readyboost must only be used in a 2:1 ratio i.e 2gb ram = 1gb max device used for readyboost
Inviato Sun 29 Nov 09 @ 7:11 am
DJ-ALF
Please be serious, there is NO way any device via USB can be faster then any SATA2 hard disk. Maybe when USB 3.0 come out will be a nice feature.
Inviato Sun 29 Nov 09 @ 8:38 am
djles.co.uk
Mine has a Sata disk drive and is STILL a visibly faster system with Readyboost.
Inviato Sun 29 Nov 09 @ 11:42 am
natedawg24
SATA drives have a throughput of at least 1.5 Gb/s whereas USB has a MAXIMUM of 480 Mb/s
Readyboost may speed up your system but USB is not faster then SATA :)
But it uses the "random access time" not the read write time therefore that speed is faster for SD cards.
Wikipedia holds the answers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost
Readyboost may speed up your system but USB is not faster then SATA :)
But it uses the "random access time" not the read write time therefore that speed is faster for SD cards.
Wikipedia holds the answers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost
Inviato Sun 29 Nov 09 @ 8:23 pm
s.waterreus
it is not a matter of how much data your hdd can copy it is a matter of how fast a file can be accesed.
a normal hdd can acces a file in about 14-16ms, a sd card can do this in less than 1, so for a lot of small files sd is much faster than hdd,
with readyboost a lot of small cache files are stored on the sd card for fast acces. that is why it works faster than a hdd.
only if you have the newer solid state disks readyboost will be less affective, because the ssd hdd's also have a file acces time/seek time of less than 1 ms. those hdd's are seriously fast.
a normal hdd can acces a file in about 14-16ms, a sd card can do this in less than 1, so for a lot of small files sd is much faster than hdd,
with readyboost a lot of small cache files are stored on the sd card for fast acces. that is why it works faster than a hdd.
only if you have the newer solid state disks readyboost will be less affective, because the ssd hdd's also have a file acces time/seek time of less than 1 ms. those hdd's are seriously fast.
Inviato Mon 30 Nov 09 @ 2:06 am