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Best Ready Boost media to use.
First my system.
Lenovo Thinkpad T61, core2duo 2.5ghz, 4GB ram (ddr2), SATA2 hdd.
I currently have 1GB of Intel turbo ram installed which I believe works similar to the way "Ready boost" works, but if someone can explain the difference, that would be nice too, but my question is about adding some flash memory so I can activate readyboost.
Since having a usb device sticking out the side of my laptop isn't desireable, I'm considering using the 4in1 card reader it comes with. I was looking at some SDHC cards (class 10) which are rated at 10MB/s, but there are some that are rated at 30MB/s too, although they cost a lot more. I believe usb2.0 is rated at 54MB/s? and are much cheaper, but it's a shame it would be so awkward on a laptop.
Are these cards going to be fast enough to be of any real help?
Should I get a 32GB class 10 for $40, or and extreme class 10 that is 30MB/s for twice as much, or should I just go with an SSD drive?
Or how about a cheaper cars, perhaps a class 6 or 10 in 8GB size ($5-10).
Am I going to see enough improvement to be worth doing this? there is also driver updates and compatibility issues I've read about with SDHC cards, so it may be more trouble then it's worth and I'm not really sure if having the turbo ram will negate much of the benefit of readybooost. I'm sure it's a lot faster then flash memory in any of these cards. I have a 512MB compact flash card I could use, it's old so it's probably slow, but it's only taking up space now, but microsoft recommends the readyboost memory be 1-3 times size of ram I think (4-12GB), so would a 512MB card be of any benefit? (min size for readyboost is 256MB)
Thanks in advance,
TuuS