Flash Boost

[BruceMyers48]

Has any on tried to use the vista flash boost utility. I put a brand new 4 gig PNY flash drive in and it said it didn't have the required performance it need. I put a old 512 flash drive in by cruzer and it worked. Does Vista have certain requirement for flash drives. Bruce

 

[Maxxify]

Yes, Vista has requirements for ReadyBoost, which you can find on a variety of sites. There is also a hack to make Vista accept any flash drive, but that might not be too useful on slow devices.

 

[mazuk]

these are the min requirements for windows vista ready boost, what they don't mention is that i think it works on only certain brands maybe, neverless these are the tech min specs

* The USB Key must be at least USB 2.0
* The device must be able to do 3.5 MB/s for 4 KB random reads uniformly across the entire device and 2.5 MB/s for 512 KB random writes uniformly across the device.
* The USB Key has to have at least 64mb of free space

 

[BruceMyers48]

I did find a registry edit that you can do on the flash drive to make it work and it did. Bruce