Hi Jim

I was impressed a few weeks back when I used readyboost with a 4Gb stick. But after a few days the benefit seemed to disappear and I noticed the LED on the USB stick wasn't lighting up at all (so it wasn't using it anymore). I was aware that i may just have got used to it but the LED not lighting led me to think it wasn't being used

I took it out and it performance didn't seem to change for better or worse.

So I reformatted the USB put it back in and set it for readyboost and again got some benefit which again seems now to have stopped.

On my Vista copy the stats monitoring for readyboost seems to be missing so I can't monitor the benefit accurately but it looks like something isn't quite working properly.

Nick







>When I installed VISTA Business on my notebook ("express upgrade") I had read about ReadyBoost and so bought a 4GB USB2 Kingston DataTraveler DTI/4GB and attached it as soon as VISTA was installed and set it to have the whole thing used for ReadyBoost.
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>The system felt quick enough and I assumed that ReadyBoost was helping out.
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>This was confirmed when, after installing SP1 the system slowed down somewhat as warned by MS because the ReadyBoost content would all be invalidated and rebuilt for the new code base.
>The system did get back to its previously experienced speed.
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>This week I read about a OCZ USB2 Rally2 that was claimed to be very fast, with a 4GB stick being cheap enough. Then I saw a Rally2 Turbo and a performance review showed it to be the fastest stick currently on the market by a long shot. Unfortunately it cost 3 times the non-turbo item.
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>In any case I decided to remove the Kingston stick and run without ReadyBoost pending buying an OCZ stick. This would let me do a subjective comparison of the three different 'states'.
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>To my great surprise my system is much snappier WITHOUT ReadyBoost active!!! While Vista offered ReadyBoost as an option for the Kingston stick, I **guess** its performance criteria are pretty low.
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>Does anyone run their Vista system using a OCZ Rally2 or Rally2 Turbo for ReadyBoost? If so, did you feel any significant speed increase after doing so?
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>Thanks