Turbo Memory ?

[goraman]

What is this and dose it work?
I have windows 7 in my T61 and wonder if this kind of odd memory would need special drivers?
Anyone using this odd thing?

http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Intel-Turbo-Mem ... 2a09ff06b3

[Neil]

Yeah, there are several posts here about Turbo Memory. Google search "turbo memory" site:forum.thinkpads.com and you will find plenty of reading material.

[goraman]

Yeah, there are several posts here about Turbo Memory. Google search "turbo memory" site:forum.thinkpads.com and you will find plenty of reading material.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
Looks like it wouldn't help me much as I have 4 gigs. fast ram,and a Momentus XT hybrid drive that uses 4 gigs in solid state much like the turbo memory and uses a 500 gig. 7200 rpm disk. My drive. http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/a ... drive.html

The link I found.
http://www.thinkpads.com/forum/viewtopi ... 29&t=69949

[Colonel O'Neill]

Having a Momentus XT pretty much accomplishes the same goal, albeit with less configurability and lower reliability (extra cell wear due to the controller getting confused at defrags, as well as unreplaceable NAND).

[Radioguy]

Not that I believe it to help more, if at all, compared to Turbo Memory, but removable flash media can also suffice for ReadyBoost.

While it may not help performance much (again, if at all), I keep an SDHC card in my memory slot assigned for ReadyBoost. I feel that's a no-downside way of taking advantage of this Windows option, while storing an extra card I may use for something else on the go. In comparison, adding an internal card seems costly, impractical, and time-consuming for this purpose when I could use that mini-pci-e slot for something more worthwhile.

It sounds like you have no need for this either, but if you want to squeeze out even a minor performance boost via ReadyBoost, removable media would be as far as I would go.