Nope not at all. I use an sd card also... You should buy a highspeed 16 gigabyte SD card ^_- a regular SD card is just about as fast as a regular flash drive.... but yeah windows boots super fast since I put in... and some programs start faster as well
> On Monday, April 30, 2007 6:40 AM Dere wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed something funny on my laptop last night.
>
> I have a 2GB SD card which I use for Vista Readboost.
>
> My laptop is scheduled to perform the Vista Defragmenter at 22:00 each
> Sunday. At exactly that time, the light for the SD card started flashing a
> whole bunch.
> To me, this appears like the defragmenter had kicked-in and was trying to
> defrag the Readyboost drive.
>
> Now, as the Vista defragmenter GUI is so limited, is there (a) a way I can
> tell if it is defragmenting this drive or not and (b) a way to stop it from
> doing so.
>
> Surely it's not necessary to defragment this as it's basically one large
> file and also will it not reduce the life of the flash memory considerably by
> defragmenting?
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Derek
>> On Monday, April 30, 2007 12:40 PM Dana Cline - MVP wrote:
>> I'm not sure if you can adjust this or not...I've found that for Vista,
>> Diskeeper is a good solution, and you can certainly adjust it there. I enjoy
>> seeing my defrag work, and Vista's defrag took that away from us.
>>
>> I like the idea of using an SD card as a ReadyBoost - thought that only
>> worked with USB sticks. Can you notice a difference?
>>
>> Dana Cline - MCE MVP
>>
>> "Derek" <> wrote in message
>> news:335B0129-CC1F-4DCB-A562-...
>>> On Monday, April 30, 2007 1:28 PM Dere wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm going to give PerfectDisk a go as that comes highly recommended.
>>>
>>> I'm using the SD card on a Toshiba M5 laptop and it definitely seems to
>>> improve things - and no USB stick poking out of the back! :-)
>>>
>>> --
>>> Derek
>>>
>>>
>>> "Dana Cline - MVP" wrote:
>>>> On Monday, April 30, 2007 2:34 PM AJR wrote:
>>>> Defraggmentation utilizes "Superfetch" (Paging file) - therefore ReadyBoost
>>>> is involved.
>>>>> On Tuesday, May 01, 2007 1:21 AM Rock wrote:
>>>>> "Derek" <> wrote
>>>>>
>>>>> I believe as part of the optimization process for ReadyBoost the device is
>>>>> defragmented at specific intervals. Look in Event Viewer at the ReadyBoost
>>>>> log under Applications and Services Logs | Microsoft | Windows | ReadyBoost
>>>>> started it could also look at the drive used for ReadyBoost.
>>>>>
>>>>> ReadyBoost constantly writes to the device, so the defrag is not going to do
>>>>> much to decrease lifetime. If you want to see these writes, open
>>>>> Reliability and Performance Monitor, expand the disk section and look for
>>>>> reads/writes to this file: X:\ReadyBoost.sfcache, where X is the driver
>>>>> letter for the ReadyBoost device.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]
>>>>>> On Thursday, May 03, 2007 9:12 PM peaheadste wrote:
>>>>>> On Apr 30, 1:28 pm, Derek <D...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I use PerfectDisk as well - Good stuff! I heard a rumor that they
>>>>>> (Raxco) will have something out next Tuesday that will be a huge
>>>>>> addition to the Vista PC health market. I'll check it out and let you
>>>>>> know.....
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