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        <title><![CDATA[Chiming in a year or two late]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-327633-3741694]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[I today realized I could try ReadyBoost on my Acer Revo 3700 HTPC with Win7 64 and only 2GB RAM.  I basically only use it for streaming video through my TV and for playing iTunes.  The latter opens very slowly due to my large mp3 collection.  I had a 2GB SD card lying around, and I never touch the SD slot on this computer so I figured why not.  I tried loading iTunes from scratch three times before and after inserting the card.iTunes loading times before RB:  50, 23, 31 secAfter RB:  22, 12, 12 secI am convinced!  Also, the boot time was reduced from 1:30 to 1:15.  Still slow but every bit helps.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[PDSF]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:06:00 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Timely repost of a two year old article.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I just found the specs on a 1Gb Sandisk Ultra II SD card I have as a backup in my camera bag.  The read/write specs are great, so I wondered if it would help my wife's celeron laptop as a Readyboost device.  Given Geg's thorough explaination, I'm going to give it a try.  The first performance boost this laptop got was a infusion of memory from 512Mb to 2Gb, for a cost of $20.  The next boost was moving from Vista Basic to Win7 Home Premium for a cost of $50 (3 upgrades $150).  Really not bad for a 6 year old laptop.  If the Readyboost helps, it will be the first free upgrade for this computer.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Realvdude]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:12:34 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ready Boost on Netbook]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have Windows 7 Home Premium on my ASUS Netbook that I installed a 2 gig ram in. I can notice the effect of the 2 gig of ready boost on the performance of this configuration. The Netbook originally came with 1 gig of ram and Window 7 Starter Edition. For me that is way too underpowered to do anything. Wish they would offer 3 gig of ram. It is a 32 bit version of Windows 7. I also have a ready boost with my Lenovo with 8 gig of ram and a 8 core i7860 processor. Don't notice much effect with that configuration. If you can see the small LED that some of these have installed in the thumb drive, you can see that it is working. Worth trying out to see if you are benefiting]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[rgeiken@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:26:51 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ReadyBoost - higher end machine.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In addition to lower end, (4GB), and 32 bit machines or laptops I would like to see some real world benchmarks of ReadyBoost in an i5, 16 GB ram, 1 or more GB video ram, multiple 7200 HD's, 32GB Ready Boost configuration.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Carey@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 09:23:58 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[boost me baby]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Now I gets a Asus netbook with windows 7 starter I finally remember about readyboost  So I google readyboost and can't find anything good about it, all I see is buy more ram.So without the boost ima trying to shread a movie with a 6 pass shread. 700meg file is taking 10 minutes and more because I gave up trying after that point. It froze the heck out of the OS. I tried it about 4 times after rebooting each time. Almost an hour blown away.Finally I got a 4gig flash drive and set it for 1gig in readyboost. Put the movie in the shreader and bam in 2 minutes it was done. And the program didn't freeze the OS.I looked at Taskman with 1gig of ram  before and after.Before my bloatware took 800meg of ram,cached ram was like 398meg available was like 317meg and free ram was 87megafter with readyboost runningI now gits 547meg of ramcached ram at 278megavailable ram at 466megand free ram at 198megbefore IE 8.0 would take about 5 seconds to load about:blankafter IE 8.0 loads about:blank in a fraction of a second.It works for me.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[raypsi]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:40:47 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Readyboost significally improves permormance on common tasks]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ReadyBoost is a supplimentary memory action by using its own cache of common tasks that are copies of what your HD would have had to handle and now has it done faster and immeadiately so the system can get directly to work without collecting the tools or programs because there already set up to go. Your mirror copy of the systems own information is safely in place ready.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[mjack85]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2010 21:02:08 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Are you using 64bit OS?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[3.0 usable ram shows when you use 32bit OS. Who makes external SDRAM in such large amounts? Did you maybe mean secure digital memory card? If you did, then it wouldn't actually work as if ti were RAM. Basically Windows loads often used files into the card and uses them instead of the copies on HDD because flash memory is faster in some cases.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[andrejakostic@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 07:16:05 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[32 Bit version of XP?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It's because you are using a 32bit operating system and because some of that memory is used for various hardware, the addressable RAM under Win XP SP2 (and 32 bit Vista) ends up having a practical limit of 3-3.5GB, depending on your hardware.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jfuller05]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:19:00 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[sd ram as ready boost]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[i have laptop toshiba due 2 core 2.2 ghz has 4GB ram,it shows installed 4.0 GB ram,3.0 GB ram usable,why and if i used external sd ram as 2,or 4 or 8 GB ram is it better to raise its performance as iam using alote of softwares for multimedia editting ?any one can help me to process using the whole 4GB installed physical rams?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:41:20 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Take a closer look at ReadyBoost features in Windows 7]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I &quot;felt&quot; like I was actually getting poorer performance.  I'm running 7200 RPM drive, only 2GB RAM.  It &quot;seemed&quot; like a lot of disk activity to move things out to the flash drive (slowed down disk performance), and no real use of the flash drive for reads.  I'm guessing this is more applicable to specific workloads - not the general user?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[steve.clark@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:15:35 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ACARD ANS-9010 Dynamic SSD]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[That's the product on Amazon.  At $370US, and the same specs as Hyperdrive 5, I need to consider _it_.Another noteworthy feature of both Hyper~ and ACARD is a slot to take CF or such.  This can allow backup in case of power failure.  Please note:  Neither mfr suggests these for extended storage of _critical_ data.  I used ramdisks in expanded memory in the days BW (Before Windows), and I know how to take advantage of such devices.Thanks again.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jeslurkin]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:53:31 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[@DNSB &amp; @andrejakostic]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-327633-3264364]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Thanks for the heads-ups.  e-Bay has some shops selling the old PCI types for ~$150US or less.  Amazon has a seller for another brand that goes in a 5.25 drive bay (more desirable).And I was reminded that HyperOS has the Hyperdrive (which used to be _way_ too expensive).  Hyperdrive 5 is still expensive, and goes in a bay also.  Has 8 slots, each taking a DIMM of up to 8 GB.Hyperdrive 5M has 6 slots for the same DIMMs, and at $300US is less than 3/4 the price of the big model.FWIW:  These use the SATA2 bus, and have a power adapter for NVR.Still rich for _my_ blood, tho' I need to think seriously about getting the 5M, and buying RAM sticks as I can afford to.If I was a hardware guru, I might be able to figure a way to adapt the PCI cards to Firewire 800.  ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jeslurkin]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:32:17 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Have tried both]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[With Vista it helped with graphic rendering in the background, while doing other stuff on the front end.WIth Win7 64 4GB RAM I played with it once or twwice but it's quick enough as is so I don't bother anymore.As for media types, I found no difference between an SD card and a decent flash drive, note tha cheaper ones aren't Ready Boost compatible, their read and write speeds just aren't fast enough. You can still opt to use it anyway, but it makes no difference.Don't confuse Ready Boost with adding mroe RAM though, it is just a caching speed increase and thus the drive speed, not so much the size, determines the noticable different. I am thinking of trying it out again on Win 7 with the newer, high speed SDE card, it might be noticeable but I don't expect much now, again Win7 with 4GB runs like a top for me under some pretty intensive loads.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Oz_Media]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:31:09 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I agree]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Pagefile is likely to be re-written many times in a session, using up flash's 100K writes too quickly.  Used as cache, maybe not so fast to wear out.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jeslurkin]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:03:11 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ramdisk card]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[We've used a Gigabyte GC-RAMDisk card with 4GB of DDR ram and works rather well with Adobe's apps as a speed up.  Disadvantages is the memory is DDR 1 which is getting harder to find cheap and the card is a full height PCI bus card which doesn't fit most of our newer systems.They also have the unit packaged with a SATA 1 interface but haven't looked at that unit.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[DNSB]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:31:58 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Something like that exists.]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-327633-3264259]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Gigabyte has been experimenting with such devices for some time. There are for example i-RAM BOX and GC-RAMDISK which are connected to computer via SATA interface. They take 4x1GiB of DDR1 RAM and have a battery so data won't be immediately lost once the computer is shut down. Unfortunately, their capacity is small.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[andrejakostic@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:15:40 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I wouldn't get rid of the Pagefile so quickly]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ReadyBoost is for speeding up disk reads, not for virtual memory. You can use you performance monitor to see which percentage of your pagefile is used, and determine how big a file you need, but I'm pretty sure you must have one!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Rhodent]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:09:19 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[IIRC...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If I Remember Correctly:ReadyBoost is used to 'stash a cache' of oft read/seldom written data.  Flash mem should be OK for this, and take a while to use up its 100K writes.I would like to get some kind of 'board' which could take 8 or more 1GB sticks of DDR DIMM.  This would make a small (blindingly fast and non-wearing) 'SSD'.  ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jeslurkin]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:59:39 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ready Boost]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have used ready-boost in my laptop since Vista and find that it does improve performance.  I would imagine that with the SSD Hard drive becoming more popular, that ready boost would become obsolete rather quickly.  I/O on SSD drives would be as fast or faster than I/Os on flash drives.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[pcrx_greg@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:41:32 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Still have Virtual Memory in Win7 - is this what ReadyBoost impacts?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Windows 7 apparently still uses Virtual Memory - &quot;an area on the hard disk that Windows uses as if it were RAM.&quot; If you use the ReadyBoost feature, is the storage on the stick/card used instead of the Virtual Memory area on the hard disk? This would likely improve performance. A related question - is it still recommended to have a paging file, even if the system is loaded with multi-GB RAM? In the past, it was always recommended to NOT disable the paging file. Is this still true in Win7?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[HarryG]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:27:14 -0700</pubDate>
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