New readyboost drives

[Juggy]

From Cyberdyne, they look pretty good.

http://www.cyberdyne.co.za/NewArrivals/index.html

 

[EchoZA]

and a review on the 2gb version http://www.virtual-hideout.net/reviews/SuperTalent_2GB_Exelerator_ReadyBoost/index.shtml

 

[Dan C]

Does readyboost really make a difference ?

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/543/4/

 

[Juggy]

ExchoZA

Did you used to work for IS?

That "will work for bandwidth" was on a tshirt they gave to all staff member about 6 or 7 years ago.

 

[Random717]

I think 8gigs for that price do make it an option if you're into stuff with very heavy memory usage...

 

[hj2k_x]

My only real grip about the Exelerator is that it must be used on a 9pin USB header on the motherboard. As an option I would have liked to seen a 9pin to USB adapter for the user who may not have a spare USB header on the motherboard. The Super Talent Exelerator is an excellent choice for users who need that little extra boost in performance and don't want to crack open the case

That is kinda lame imo. Not exactly plug and play.

 

[killadoob]

what would u rather have

slow readyboost drives or more memory

 

[proximiti99]

Total waste of hard earned tom ...

 

[hj2k_x]

what would u rather have

slow readyboost drives or more memory

Yeah, for 500 bucks nowadays you can rather get 2GB of real DDR800 RAM.

 

[EchoZA]

ExchoZA

Did you used to work for IS?

That "will work for bandwidth" was on a tshirt they gave to all staff member about 6 or 7 years ago.

Nope, it's my license plate holder from ThinkGEEK

 

[Juggy]

Nope, it's my license plate holder from ThinkGEEK

Nice

 

[HavocXphere]

Might be useful for laptops. Not so much for desktops.

 

[hj2k_x]

Might be useful for laptops. Not so much for desktops.

How to you get at the motherboard of the lappy to install it?

 

[HavocXphere]

How to you get at the motherboard of the lappy to install it?

With a soldering kit and and a usb cable that can be spared.

Last time I tried to use the readyboost thing it gave me cr@p about the performance parameters not being suitable. Tried two newish sticks then gave up.

 

[howardb]

Got a question or two about these ready boost drives - would there be any benefit using these on XP? Is their transfer rate 166x (read/write) faster or slower than a SATA 150 HDD?

Just thinking if I could use one as a boot drive - would it be faster of slower than HDD, as it sounds very similar to a solid state hard drive - only the interface is different?

 

[kronoSX]

Only for vista uses like me needing it,I have a sandisk u3 drive 1gig,I am happy.
only 600mb is cached on the drive to like you say readyboost..still slow