Posts by darmos

Hey Exe- nice find, there are a few articles at TH site looking at Superfetch/ReadyBoost performance effects. They were somewhat limited in testing scope by only looking at opening up two or three applications repeatedly to time...

Agreed on the sequential speeds not being "orders of magnitude higher than Vistas reqs". My point was a comparison that there is an order of magnitude spread in rated sequential speeds from the slowest to fastest devices that...

hey guys, we've got a similar thread going here: http://www.notebookforums.com/thread190160.html Basically, here's a couple sites to look up thumb and flash cards of which I've decided to try an SD flash card by SanDisk that's rated...

Quote: Originally Posted by Pirx Try it. That's the only way to find out. P.S.: Oh, and report back what you find... Pirx- any ideas on benchmarks to give a whirl? Stuckinasquare3- Definitely the best...

True, I think the minimum is 2.5 Mb/s for acceptable performance before Vista will use it. With the fastest devices running a bit over 20 Mb/s on some readers, that's approximately an order of magnitude range in speed. So for a task that...

Yep, I've also seen the tests where it didn't make much difference at all too. That could easily be a poor performing thumb drive issue rather than the merit of the ReadyBoost feature itself. Looking at the wide range of performance...

Quote: Originally Posted by Pirx Waitaminute: You say 14 seconds from Standby? That is ridiculous, let alone talking about 44 seconds. My XP machines typically come out of Standby within a few seconds (maybe 2-3...

hi zzpulp, i had considered that up front but the extra cost of going from 2 Gb to 4 Gb was just too much for my budget. I can sill use the SD card for our family digital camera too. I also run two gaming desktops with associated...

Maybe we could post around on the Dell forums asking if anyone's E1705/M1710 or other Dell laptops can recognize the 2 Gb SanDisk SD Extreme III memory card. I've ordered it "blind" hoping that it'll work Ok. I'll be a tad...

While waiting on my new E1705 to show up next week with Vista Ultimate, I've been looking into Vista's ReadyBoost feature that uses thumb drives or flash memory cards as disk cache acceleration devices. I at first dismissed the idea but...