VISTA: "Ready Boost" anyone try it ?

scottscott Medina, Ohio Icrontian
edited October 2006 in Science & Tech
Has anyone tried a flash drive in ready boost ? Apperently my 2 gig sandisk thumb drive does not meet the criteria.


Scott

Comments

  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited September 2006
    From what I'm hearing, no existing flash drive seems to meet the criteria. I have a very fast OCZ flash drive, and it didn't work either :-/
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited September 2006
    Nothing I have including a USB HDD worked, I thought I heard it wasn't full enabled yet..
  • Park_7677Park_7677 Missouri Member
    edited September 2006
    During a demonstration the Microsoft representative showed it off. Obviously his flash drive was of "today" so I'm going to guess something is not enabled/working just yet.
  • scottscott Medina, Ohio Icrontian
    edited September 2006
    here is a good read on ready boost

    http://blogs.msdn.com/tomarcher/archive/2006/06/02/615199.aspx


    Scott
  • ceegeeceegee
    edited September 2006
    I have seen it work, but only with a USB 2.0 port, older port will not work apparently (by the way i was using SanDisk Cruzer 1.0g mini)
  • pythagoraspythagoras
    edited September 2006
    I bought a cheapo 1 gig 12 buck flash drive today, and that worked. Not sure how to test for an improvement though:skeptic:

    Regards

    John.
  • PirateNinjaPirateNinja Icrontian
    edited September 2006
    soon there will be readyboost ready flash drives. that is funny to me.
  • SandiSandi
    edited September 2006
    My SimpleTech flashdrive works with Ready Boost. It is only 256mb but then I usually only use it for Firefox "Temporary Internet" files anyway. Not only a tad faster but they are in a handy spot to delete without going into browser tools.

    I belileve your port has to be USB 2 compliant though.
  • KELEKELE
    edited October 2006
    To test the Vista RC1 "in the wild" I assembled a "new" PC from old hardware: 2.4 P4 northwood, D845HV intel board (400 MHz FSB), 1.5 GB SDRAM (2-2-2-6), 2 x 80 GB WD IDE HDD, 6600 Club3D (4x AGP on this MOBO) AND a brand new 2 GB Crucial Gizmo Flash Drive: Ready Boost DO NOT work with USB 1.1 !
    It was possible to install and make some software work at this oldtime PC, but as soon as I installed McAfee ViruScan the PC became very unstable and unreliable (The same set up works perfectly with Win XP).
    I have now assembled another PC from a former generation: 2.8 P4 HT Northwood, ASRock P4i65G (800 MHz FSB), 512 MB PC3200 DDR RAM, 2 x 80 GB WD IDE HDD, 6600 Club3D (8x AGP on this MOBO) AND the brand new Crucial Gizmo Flash Drive: Ready Boost works very fine in this setup (USB 2.0). Vista RC1 installed much faster in this second setup but has a tendency to freeze in between, probably because of too little RAM i guess - although the 2 GB Ready Boost seems to work fine.
Sign In or Register to comment.