April 5th, 2007 by ketyung
Windows Vista is well known as a resource hungry operating system. A 1GB of RAM will not be sufficient for a smooth run of it. Of course, Microsoft isn’t too bad for this. One of the cool features of Windows Vista is it allows you to use external USB flash drive as an additional memory to speed up your system, which is also known as ReadyBoost. Using an external USB flash drive means that you need to sacrifice your precious USB port.
Taiwanese company, InnoDisk now has an “internal” solution for it. Its ReadyBoost solution is to connect directly to your PC motherboard’s USB pin header, which you don’t have to sacrifice any USB port. InnoDisk’s ReadyBoost operates at 3MB/s for 512KB random read/write and 5MB/s for 4KB, which have all exceeded the minimum requirements by Microsoft. The 2GB flash drive will retail for a price about $15.00 only. The availablity is unknown. According to InnoDisk, their internal solution gives overall performance improvement ranging from 18 to 26%.
via [EverythingUSB]
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April 6th, 2007 at 1:23 am
Hrm, gotta say this is the first I have heard about this. I will have to check more into it, as it just doesn’t make much sense to me… does this mean you can overclock your flash drive? lol
April 6th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Nice - I think this is definitely the correct way of doing ReadyBoost. Cheap too!
April 7th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Actually the idea of ReadyBoost is to provide the convenience to use USB flash drive to increase your memory anytime, which has NO need to open up your PC casing. Although the InnoDisk is good, but I’d say only good for techies. You know not everybody dares to open up the PC case to plug in an InnoDisk piece
May 29th, 2007 at 12:56 am
[...] For those going to opt Windows Vista as the main OS for their PC, then you’ll need to start marking down what external storage available in the market that support the Vista ReadyBoost. PQI has got some internal solution, which sounds giving similar effect with the InnoDisk’s ReadyBoost that we’ve seen before. It’s a little plug that plugs directly onto your motherboard to give you ReadyBoost, without needing you to have a USB flash drive sticking out from your computer case. This PQI’s product is called Disk On Module, which gives you a instant memory boost from 512MB to 2GB. The 2GB model costs you $67 and boasts a read/write speed of 22MB/s and 17MB/s respectively. [...]
February 11th, 2008 at 5:17 am
[...] Windows Vista’s ReadyBoost feature allows you to use external USB memory stick to boost the total memory of the system. But, there is no point to use a memory stick that has low reading speed, as it surely degrades the performance instead of increasing it. We’ need a memory stick that has high reading speed to boost the Vista’s performance. The Sony’s newly released PocketBit USB memory stick offers a reading speed of 31MB (Megabyte) per second, is best used to help boost the performance of your Windows Vista. [...]