Is there any improvement on X41 tablet with Readyboost?

[Tim82]

Hello!

I recently use an X41 tablet as my daily mobile machine/workhorse, mostly for office usage, light picture-editing and for staying online. (I have a lighter and smaller F-S Lifebook, but it's under repair yet.) I ordered from eBay a Lenovo-branded SSD (mostly for avoiding that annoying "danger! you don't use 100% IBM-compatible HDD! BEEP!" message known as error 2010), but it seems take a long way before arrive...

Until I get my SSD, I decided to put a Toshiba 4 GB SDHC in the cardreader slot of my X41t for Readyboost (maybe this can improve a little of the system's responsiveness). I'm a bit skeptical, maybe Readyboost is just something of a placebo... I use Win 7 HP 32bit.

Had anyone used on X40/X41 (tablet) Readyboost with Vista/Win 7? Is this feature useful on these models? I found one thread http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=89054, but there isn't much information about the usefulness and improvement of this function...

Oh, and another "stupid" question: is there any straight relation between Readyboost's performance and the boost drive's speed class? (Sorry, but never used Readyboost before...)

[Harryc]

The rule of thumb I've seen on Readyboost is that it does not offer significant performance improvements if you already have more than 512MB of system RAM.
http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware-feature ... ch-for-ram

[tehdude]

Unless anyone has thought of a workaround, the in-built cardreader has abysmal read speed and is totally useless for ReadyBoost. It rarely even passes the test to qualify for it. I bought a 16GB SDHC class 10 card for this and it shows me read-speeds of about 3MB/s, not to mention that CPU load is 100% and machine unresponsive during read operations (not so much during write). Must be a firmware issue.

Steer away, buddy!

But I actually found some help from a USB stick for ReadyBoost when I had disabled pagefile and was using the original hard drive. It was good for extra working memory that tended to run out without pagefile.

[craigmontHunter]

Ready boost stores recently accessed programs to make them launch faster - with a slow hard drive there is a noticeable improvement than without it - that is one of the reasons that I did not use windows 7 on my t41 - the lack of a card reader meant that I had to have a usb stick in all the time. It is a pity if the X41 card reader does not work - that was the best solution I have seen, and you have the card to transfer files.

[Temetka]

I used to use ReadyBoost on my X41T. However I have since disabled it and to be honest, the system feels like it boots faster, loads programs quicker and in general is more responsive than when I had it enabled. It could be the speed of the built in reader, or something else. All that I know is for my usage under Windows 7, the system feel quicker without readyboost.

I now use the SD reader as supplemental storage support for saving files to and using them when in Linux.