4GB USB drive not for readyboost?

L.o.D. · 09-21-2009, 06:40 PM

I have a 2GB & a 4GB USB flash drives. The 2GB is working with readyboost but when I go to the readyboost tab for the 4GB, it says it doesn't have the performance characteristics.
How can a 4GB not have it when a 2GB does??
What is the 4GB missing??

bes · 09-21-2009, 06:43 PM

Well...

are they different brands?
is one of them a USB 1.0?

only other thought is that 4gigs might be slower than 2 gigs ...or you can try to format it with a different file system...like fat16/fat32/exfat and see it will work then..

L.o.D. · 09-21-2009, 06:47 PM

Well, readyboost seems to be for USB 2.0.
The 2GB is a Verbatim & the other is a Staples brand that I bought about a month ago and it's formated as fat32.

ngwoo · 09-21-2009, 06:56 PM

Some drives are simply slower than others. Readyboost requires a certain level of speed or it just defeats the purpose.

Also, if you have any more than a GB or so of memory Readyboost isn't going to give you any performance increase.

cr1515 · 09-21-2009, 07:06 PM

Yeah it's over-rated. Drives will have something like "ready boost certified" on them if not they won't work. Even if you get it working it's more trouble than it's worth, I found no performance increase and often the drive would stop working and need reformatting.

bes · 09-21-2009, 07:25 PM

I decided to use readyboost on my RAID0 SSD's a 4gig exFAT partition... I tried USB first and didnt see any difference...I can with the SSD's.

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L.o.D. Join Date: Apr 2006 Reputation: 1647 Posts: 22,671	4GB USB drive not for readyboost? I have a 2GB & a 4GB USB flash drives. The 2GB is working with readyboost but when I go to the readyboost tab for the 4GB, it says it doesn't have the performance characteristics. How can a 4GB not have it when a 2GB does?? What is the 4GB missing??

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09-21-2009, 06:43 PM	#2
bes Join Date: Apr 2007 Reputation: 567 Posts: 3,571	Well... are they different brands? is one of them a USB 1.0? only other thought is that 4gigs might be slower than 2 gigs ...or you can try to format it with a different file system...like fat16/fat32/exfat and see it will work then..

09-21-2009, 06:47 PM	#3
L.o.D. Join Date: Apr 2006 Reputation: 1647 Posts: 22,671	Well, readyboost seems to be for USB 2.0. The 2GB is a Verbatim & the other is a Staples brand that I bought about a month ago and it's formated as fat32.

09-21-2009, 06:56 PM	#4
ngwoo Join Date: Oct 2008 Reputation: 102 Posts: 726	Some drives are simply slower than others. Readyboost requires a certain level of speed or it just defeats the purpose. Also, if you have any more than a GB or so of memory Readyboost isn't going to give you any performance increase.

09-21-2009, 07:06 PM	#5
cr1515 Join Date: Nov 2006 Reputation: 445 Posts: 1,954	Yeah it's over-rated. Drives will have something like "ready boost certified" on them if not they won't work. Even if you get it working it's more trouble than it's worth, I found no performance increase and often the drive would stop working and need reformatting.

09-21-2009, 07:25 PM	#6
bes Join Date: Apr 2007 Reputation: 567 Posts: 3,571	I decided to use readyboost on my RAID0 SSD's a 4gig exFAT partition... I tried USB first and didnt see any difference...I can with the SSD's.