readyboost again

OK, I tried a high-speed SD card in my card reader. The device again shows that it doesn't meet the necessary speed requirements for use as a performance booster. This is a '133x' rated card I think. Are there any known memory sticks/makes of card that will work with ReadyBoost?

the card should work, but you probably need a new card reader. I've tried several brands of sd cards and all of them worked, even though none of them were labeled as "high speed".
"Brian Wescombe" wrote:

OK, I tried a high-speed SD card in my card reader. The device again shows that it doesn't meet the necessary speed requirements for use as a performance booster. This is a '133x' rated card I think. Are there any known memory sticks/makes of card that will work with ReadyBoost?

I stuck in a 1 GB memory stick I bought several months ago from Costco and it worked, which surprised me because it was not very expensive.
There is some good information about ReadyBoost here... http://blogs.msdn.com/tomarcher/archive/2006/06/02/615199.aspx
And in that article you will find something similar to your 133x rated card reference.
"Q: My device says 12MB/sec (or 133x or something else) on the package but windows says that it isn't fast enough to use as a ReadyBoost device... why? A: Two possible reasons: The numbers measure sequential performance and we measure random. We've seen devices that have great sequential perf, but horrible random The performance isn't consistantly fast across the entire device. Some devices have 128M of lightning fast flash and the rest of the device is really slow. This is fine for some applications but not ReadyBoost."
"Brian Wescombe" wrote in message

OK, I tried a high-speed SD card in my card reader. The device again shows that it doesn't meet the necessary speed requirements for use as a performance booster. This is a '133x' rated card I think. Are there any known memory sticks/makes of card that will work with ReadyBoost?

"Gary Mount" wrote in message

I stuck in a 1 GB memory stick I bought several months ago from Costco and it worked, which surprised me because it was not very expensive.

What make is your memory stick?? Thanks